Shares of Chinese funeral company rise as Covid infections soar
Workers wearing protective gear handle coffins and coffin boxes at Dongjiao Funeral Home, supposedly designated to handle Covid deaths, in Beijing, China, on Monday, the 19th. December 2022.
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The Hong Kong-listed shares of China’s largest cemetery operator and funeral service operator rose to their highest in more than a year as the country grapples with a wave of Covid-19 infections.
Fu Shou Yuan International Corporation stocks hit a 2022 high of HK$7.04 a share late Friday – up about 80% in two months – as the country abrupt end most of its Covid control measures and saw a spike in case numbers.
Shares of Fu Shou Yuan International Group have fallen nearly 40% for 2022 since November, but they are now on track to gain 15% year-to-date.
The company, with a market capitalization of over $2 billion, Released in 2013 with support from the Carlyle Group and hedge fund company Farallon Investors.
Carlyle co-founder William Conway visited Fu Shou Yuan’s main cemetery in Shanghai with a group of executives in December 2010 before agreeing to buy $25 million worth of stock before going public. company to go public.