China Just Put a Price on the Humanoid Robot: $9 Billion, 219 Times Earnings, and Ordinary Savers Lining Up to Buy In
About This Episode
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market listing at 150.8 yuan a share on August 6, valuing the Hangzhou company at about 61 billion yuan, or $9.04 billion, and opened subscriptions to investors on August 10. It is mainland China's first publicly listed humanoid robot maker, and the price implies more than 219 times earnings — a number set weeks after the FCC barred Unitree's machines from the American market entirely.
Our Take
The first public market price for a humanoid robot maker was set this week — and the country that just banned those robots is also the one whose workers they were built to replace, which raises the question of who ends up owning the machines versus who only competes with them.
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