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On March 0 8 , 2 0 1 9 , Lightspeed POS Inc., a Montreal - based company that provides retailers and restaurants with cloud

On March08,2019, Lightspeed POS Inc., a Montreal-based company that provides retailers and restaurants with cloud-based software to help them manage point-of-sale and back-office functions, conducted its initial public offering(IPO) of common stock. In the primary trading market, the company's shares were priced at $29.8429.84 per share, but after one day of trading on TSX, the share price closed at $38.1738.17. The company sold 22.122.1 million shares in the offering.
a. To what extent(in dollars and on a percentage basis) was Lightspeed's stock underpriced in its IPO?
b. How much cash(before deducting fees to investment banks) did Lightspeed raise? How much more would it have raised if the shares had not been underpriced?

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