By Altamiro Silva Junior
São Paulo, 20/12/2024 - Fictor Alimentos made its debut on the B3 this week in a market that has gone for the fourth year in a row without any new initial public offerings (IPOs). To get on the stock exchange, the company did a "reverse IPO", which is when a closed company buys a listed company - a trend that some banks consulted by Broadcast believe that is expected to grow in 2025.
Fictor Alimentos emerged after Fictor Holding and AQWA Capital bought, for R$ 20 million, around 76% of the shares of Atom Empreendimentos e Participações, also known as Atompar, which was the company listed on B3 with the ticker ATOM3.
With the acquisition, a change to the company namewhich was renamed Fictor FoodsThe company is a holding company focused on the animal protein sector and interested in acquiring assets in the agribusiness sector. The company debuted on B3 as a "pure holding company, with the aim of raising funds to make strategic allocations", according to the statement.
Initially, the aim is to invest in companies in the poultry sector, but it is also targeting other segments, such as animal protein. The objective in investing in companies is to be the controlling shareholder or to have a relevant shareholding, "with the function of strategically managing a portfolio of investments, always with the aim of increasing the value and efficiency of the group of controlled companies".
How to trade Fictor Alimentos shares?
In the reverse IPO, Fictor inherited Atom's previous ticker, "ATOM3", which was updated to "FICT3" yesterday. At 1:48 p.m. on Friday, the paper was down more than 11%, quoted at R$ 3.70, but has accumulated a rise of 469% in 2024. In December alone, it rose 221%, amid the corporate reorganization operation and the changes to the group's board and executive board.
The Fictor group has operations in agribusiness, finance, infrastructure and the energy sector, as well as the payments company FictorPay.
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