Xanadu shares face major test as Sept. 22 lockup expiry frees most stock for trading
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Xanadu's Sept. 22 lockup expiry will sharply expand free float (from ~13M to most of ~300M shares), raising near-term supply and volatility risk as early investors can sell after large paper gains. Management argues a larger float should reduce extreme swings and broaden institutional participation, but positioning around the event may be dominated by profit-taking versus milestone-driven re-rating tied to DARPA progress and execution on error-correction and manufacturing plans.
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Six months after going public, Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu will see the lockup expire for holders of most of its shares on Sept. 22, after only 13 million shares had been freely tradable. The stock has been sliding from its highs and closed Friday at US$7.42 per share. Early backers such as OMERS are sitting on large unrealized gains, with its stake once valued at US$1.6 billion despite an initial investment of less than US$30 million.
