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Kaixin HoldingsKXIN

Class A KXINCIK 0001713539

Cash in trust

$214M

$213,708,706

Trust per share

$10.47

Redemption value

IPO

Oct 2017

$202M raised

Combination deadline

—

Not disclosed

Filings on record

274

Latest Sep 16, 2026

Business combination

Target
Not disclosed in an indexed filing
Announced
Nov 21, 2018
Closed
May 6, 2019

Overview

Kaixin Holdings is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001713539. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2017, raising $202M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker KXIN on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Kaixin. The mandate targets financial services. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.

“we intend to focus our search for target businesses on specific locations as described in this prospectus, we are not limited to those locations and may consummate a business combination with a company in any location or industry we choose.”
The mandate, as stated in the IPO prospectus

Reading the filings

Arithmetic on what Kaixin Holdings has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.

  • Trust versus the $10 unit

    The trust holds $10.47 per public share, 4.7% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.

  • Rights, not warrants

    Each unit carried one right per unit. A right converts automatically on closing rather than needing to be exercised at a strike, so it is dilution that arrives whatever the share price does — unlike a warrant, which only bites if the stock works. For a holder redeeming at the trust it is worth nothing either way; for one staying in, it is a certain claim rather than an option.

  • Underwriting

    I-Bankers Securities led the offering. It has been named on 90 SPAC IPOs, book-running 25 of them, and 67.9% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.

How busy it has been

Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.

331702017-082026-09

274 filings in all. 4 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 33.

News on Kaixin Holdings

Last 90 days

News sentiment

Positive
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Across 2 recent stories, weighted towards the newest. Scored by our own headline classifier using finance- and SPAC-specific terms. It reads what a story is about, not what the shares are worth.

SEC filing history

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Kaixin Holdings: questions answered

What is Kaixin Holdings (KXIN)?

Kaixin Holdings is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001713539. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2017, raising $202M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker KXIN on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Kaixin. The mandate targets financial services. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.

How much does Kaixin Holdings hold in trust?

Approximately $213,708,706, or about $10.47 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.

When must Kaixin Holdings complete a merger?

No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.

What happens if Kaixin Holdings does not find a target in time?

The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.

Can I redeem shares in Kaixin Holdings, and at what price?

Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.47 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.

What tickers does Kaixin Holdings trade under?

Class A shares trade as KXIN on Nasdaq. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.

Is the trust value the same as the share price for Kaixin Holdings?

No, and the gap between them is the whole trade. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure of $10.47, being what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at: most recently $1.98, a spread to the redemption value. Quotes on this site are delayed and indicative; confirm on your own venue before trading.

Who sponsors Kaixin Holdings, and what is their track record?

Kaixin is the sponsor entity, part of the Kaixin franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Bing Lin.

Which banks underwrote the Kaixin Holdings IPO?

EarlyBirdCapital, Chardan, I-Bankers Securities. I-Bankers Securities was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.

Is Kaixin Holdings tradeable, and where?

Yes. KXIN returned a live quote of $1.98 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.

Is Kaixin Holdings a good investment?

That is not a question this site answers. Kaixin Holdings is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.

Where does this Kaixin Holdings data come from?

Filings Kaixin Holdings submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001713539: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.

Compiled by the SPACListing research desk

Last reconciled Nov 1, 2026

Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.

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