Infotech capital offerings raise $2.94B in May

Capital markets activity among publicly traded information technology companies in the U.S., Canada and Bermuda brought in $2.94 billion in May, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data.

The figure is a 63.73% drop from the April total of about $8.1 billion. It is also the sector's second-lowest monthly total in 2022, after the $2.04 billion raised in January.

The biggest portion of the total capital raised in May came from senior debt offerings at nearly $2.9 billion, while common equity offerings brought in the remaining $39.1 million.

Qualcomm Inc.'s $1.00 billion offering of its 4.500% notes was the month's largest offering. Motorola Solutions Inc. in mid-May raised $600 million in an offering of its 5.600% senior notes. The company plans to use the offerings' net proceeds to repurchase debt as well as for general corporate purposes.

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Broadcom Inc.'s $2.5 billion debt offering in March is the largest debt offerings year to date, outranking Snap Inc.'s private placement in February of $1.5 billion of its 0.125% convertible senior notes.

Broadcom raised $1.2 billion in March and $750 million in April in two other debt offerings. All three offerings came ahead of the chipmaker's late-May announcement of its planned $61 billion acquisition of enterprise software provider VMware Inc., which is one of the biggest tech deals in recent decades.

For the second month in a row, semiconductor companies achieved the biggest total raise year to date across the broader infotech sector with $10.42 billion. IT consulting and other services companies came in next, holding on to the April total of $4.09 billion, while application software companies ranked third with $3.60 billion.