Unity employees and John Riccitiello ring the NYSE opening bell.
Unity employees and John Riccitiello ring the NYSE opening bell.
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Unity’s stock rises 32% in first-day trading to $18.1 billion value

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies saw its stock price rise 32% to $68.88 a share in the first day of trading as it launched an initial public offering at a $13.6 billion valuation.

Trading under the symbol U, the stock opened on Friday morning at $52 a share, and the market value rose to $18.1 billion by the end of the day. Unity makes the Unity game engine developers use to create games and other computer-generated entertainment.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.