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' CEO Shane Smith says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more attractive ever since COVID tore through the industry during the pandemic will help it weather the impact of President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations.

Smithfield Foods launched its initial public offering of stock this Tuesday (Jan. 28), selling 26 million shares at $20 each – that’s below the $23 to $27 range the company estimated last week, also below the nearly 35 million shares first envisioned. Still, that pockets $261 million each for it and its Chinese owner, WH Group.

Listen to this article Smithfield Foods officials rang the opening bell Tuesday at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, as the packaged meat and fresh pork giant launched its initial public offering of 26 million stock shares at $20 per share on the Nasdaq Global Select Market,

Smithfield completed an initial public offering and is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday under the symbol SFD. Since late 2013 Smithfield has been a subsidiary of

Smithfield Foods ( SFD) began its roadshow on Tuesday for an underwritten initial public offering of 34,800,000 shares of its common stock. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $23.00 and $27.00 per share. The range values the Virginia-based company at $10.7 billion at the high point.

Smithfield Foods Inc. shares rose about 2% in the pork producer’s return to being a public company, after the stock priced below the range offered in its IPO.Most Read from BloombergTexas HOA Charged

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Smithfield Foods' CEO says he hopes that everything the company has done to make working in its plants more attractive ever since COVID tore through the industry during the pandemic