September 2020: AIM arrivals, departures and IHT qualifiers
There were two newcomers to AIM in September, one from the currently popular healthcare sector and the other from the deeply unloved restaurant sector. The valuations on IPO reflected their widely differing appeal.
At the end of September 2020 there were 822 companies on AIM, with the total market value £107bn. This compares to 825 companies at the end of August 2020 when AIM’s market value was also £107bn. There were two new arrivals in the month and five departures. September closed with nineteen AIM companies valued at more than £1bn, one fewer than the prior month, with video gaming company Frontier Developments (LON:FDEV) joining the £1 billion brigade but Learning Technologies (LON:LTG) and YouGov (LON:YOU) slipping into the following pack. Two hundred and seven were valued at over £100m. ASOS (LON:ASC) remained at the…