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Just Eat is the first firm to list on the London Stock Exchange's high growth segment, where companies do not have to float as much of their equity as for a premium listing.
The recently introduced High Growth Segment is gradually attracting tech flotations.
Meanwhile, Israeli digital advertising group Matomy Media floated on the LSE's High Growth Segment after raising £41m in an initial public offering.
Just Eat's flotation is the first ever on the on the LSE's "high growth segment", a special section of the exchange aimed at encouraging high-growth companies to list.
In addition to the removal of stamp duty from AIM (where it accounts for just 3percentt – or £72 million – of total revenues collected by this tax), the London Stock Exchange is arguing for it not to be applied to the High Growth Segment when it comes on stream.
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"We've culled out the deadwood, and we're getting into the high growth segments," says an Oldsmobile strategy executive.
Dell, despite easier comparisons in the second half of the year, should still show the negative impact from "its lack of geographical footprint in the higher growth segments and more aggressive pricing," said Bachman.
E.g, Nielsen last year reported the first decline in TV homes in 20 years, video games are one of the highest growth segments in entertainment, DVD sales are on a downward slide, handsets and tablets are reshaping the publishing biz, and social media has changed how we discover and enjoy entertainment.
In April Just Eat, a website that helps takeaways to sell food online, became the first company to list on the London Stock Exchange's high-growth segment, which makes it unusually easy for a young firm to sell shares.
We would argue that given the nature of their growth patterns and ambitions, the best later-stage companies should be raising long-term equity capital, by tapping institutional finance and look at listing themselves on public markets which now may include the new high-growth segment on the London Stock Exchange, or on AIM.
In a buy note, the broker said: Smith & Nephew has rebalanced away from hips/knees and now has leading positions in higher-growth segments.
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