The Chinese consumer unsecured marketplace lender has went public at a $350m valuation and 6x revenue multiple, becoming the second online lender to come market this year following Elevate.
"China Rapid Finance is coming to the market during a turbulent time in the China peer-to-peer industry as regulators roll out more controls to clean up what has so far been chaotic growth in the past few years," MCM Partners analyst Ryan Roberts wrote in a note on the stock’s first initiation, a buy rating. "The company reduced the pricing range by about 40 percent, which we suspect reflected tepid demand from backers," the note said.