Online ticketing marketplace StubHub aims to go public by late summer, people close to the company told The Information’s Cory Weinberg. StubHub has more than $2B in debt, which is “many times its estimated profits,” so the company will test investors’ appetite for companies with strained balance sheets while StubHub has “ambitious hopes for the valuation it would achieve,” further complicating matters, the report noted. The company would prefer to be valued in line with the $16.5B valuation at which it raised money during the boom of late 2021 and could call off the public listing plans if it can’t get close to that number, the sources indicated. Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) is a publicly traded competitor in the event ticketing space.
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