UTME Stock: 17 Things to Know About Low-Cost Mobile Play UTime as Shares Skyrocket

UTime(NASDAQ:UTME) stock is on the rise Wednesday as investors take interest in the company following its recent initial public offering (IPO).

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Here’severything investors need to knowabout UTME stock.

• UTime is a Chinese mobile company focused on developing and manufacturing phones, accessories, and other related products.
• Unlike most mobile comapnies, UTME isn’t aiming for big spenders.
• Instead, the company is aiming at budget customers in established and emerging markets.
• That has it working to create devices and products that are cost-effective.
• UTime only just launched its IPO on Tuesday.
• This saw the company offering up 3.75 million shares of UTME stock at a price of $4 each.
• That set the company up to earn $15 million in gross proceeds from the IPO.
• The IPO is going to close on Thursday.

• Boustead Securitiesis the lead underwriter of the UTime IPO.
• Brilliant Norton Securities Company LimitedandFosun Hani Securities Limitedare acting as co-underwriters for the offering.
• UTime wants to use the funds gained from its IPO to expand its business.
• That includes growing its U.S. branch and upgrading its offerings.
• The company’s focus on cheap phones means that it doesn’t yet have one that offers 4G to customers.
• UTME hopes to fix this with the extra development that funds from the offering will allow.
• One of its more interesting plans is Bluetooth glasses.
• The idea of a budget company offering Bluetooth glasses when many larger companies haven’t entered the space yet is strange.
• It’s also unknown just how well these glasses would be able to compete against possible offerings from larger rivals such asApple(NASDAQ:AAPL) orAlphabet(NASDAQ:GOOGL,GOOG).

UTME stock was up 113.4% as of Wednesday afternoon.

UTime joins a growing list of companies that are seeing shares soar on Wednesday.

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