The public offering came in at $522 million, although the pork producer had anticipated more than $900 million.

The offering has been priced at $20 per share, not the $23 to $27 range suggested by the meat giant last week.

Smithfield Foods’ shares rose over their reduced initial public offering price Tuesday, as the pork producer returned to the stock market about 12 years after China’s WH Group took it private.

Smithfield Foods and its Chinese parent raised around $522 million from the U.S. pork giant's initial public offering after pricing shares below their marketed range.

Smithfield Foods does not plan to close more U.S. pork processing plants, Chief Executive Shane Smith said on Tuesday, as the company returned to a U.S. exchange after more than a decade in a spinoff by Hong Kong-based WH Group .

Smithfield will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the selling shareholder. Acting joint lead book-running managers for the proposed offering include Morgan Stanley, BofA Securities and Goldman Sachs & Co.

Smithfield Foods ( NASDAQ: SFD) opened for trading at $21.05 before settling back to $20.18 at 12:50 p.m. The early trading values the food processing giant at just over $8.0 billion.

Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the U.S., said it priced its initial public offering well below its forecast range, raising $521.7 million for the company and the selling stockholder.

Smithfield Foods’ shares rose over their reduced initial public offering price Tuesday, as the pork producer returned to the stock market about 12 years after China’s WH Group took it private.

Smithfield Foods, the largest U.S. pork producer, raised $522 million in an IPO that was around 21% smaller than originally planned. Why it matters: There have been two big IPOs so far in 2025, and both of them bombed.