Brookfield and Cameco paid roughly $8 billion for Westinghouse Electric in late 2023. |
Today the company is exploring an Initial Public Offering at a valuation that could exceed $50 billion. |
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Brookfield owns 51% of Westinghouse and Cameco owns 49%. Cameco's U.S. shares jumped as much as 3.6% Friday, the biggest move since early September. |
Westinghouse is not another nuclear startup. |
It designs and services nuclear plants, and its pressurized-water technology runs 57% of the world's 417 operating reactors. The company built the first commercial U.S. reactor at Pennsylvania in 1957. It employs more than 12,500 people across 21 countries. |
The flagship product is the AP1000. Cameco says the pipeline includes as many as 91 potential projects. |
The valuation is the part worth sitting with. Analysts had been modeling Westinghouse somewhere between $26 billion and $30 billion. |
A $50 billion valuation is roughly six times the purchase price just three years ago. |
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There's a reason the owners feel confident. Last October, Westinghouse and its owners signed a partnership with the U.S. government covering at least $80 billion of new reactors. The Department of Energy has committed up to $17.5 billion in loans to finance the equipment. |
That deal comes with a string attached. |
Once Westinghouse clears roughly a $30 billion valuation, an IPO can be required — and Washington gets the right to take an equity stake. Reports put that stake at 8%, with some versions of the terms running as high as 20%. Public shareholders would absorb that dilution. |
The other thing to remember is 2017. Westinghouse filed Chapter 11 that year after AP1000 construction overruns at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. The business today leans on licensing and services rather than fixed-price construction, which is a genuinely different risk profile. It's still a long-cycle industrial story that depends on reactors getting financed, licensed, and actually built. |
The recent scoreboard for nuclear IPOs is not encouraging. |
· X-Energy (Nasdaq: XE) now trades about 32% below its IPO price. |
· Standard Nuclear (NYSE: STDN) sits 14% under its listing price. |
· Holtec postponed its offering this week. |
Half of the ten largest U.S. IPOs this year are companies tied to the AI data center buildout. Most have traded poorly after the debut. |
So, Westinghouse arrives with the best assets in the sector and the worst tape. |
One angle worth noting: Cameco carries a market value of about $41 billion. Its 49% stake in a $50 billion Westinghouse would be worth roughly $24 billion before any government stake — a large share of Cameco's entire market cap. |
Westinghouse has filed for a confidential IPO. That means we’re still waiting on the public S-1 with the share count, the price range, and full financials. We are also awaiting details including how much Brookfield and Cameco are selling versus how much new money stays in the company. |
Time will tell whether the rumored $50 billion valuation survives SEC comments and roadshow pricing. |
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Ian Wyatt
Editor, IPO Watch |
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