Vinhomes is the real estate arm of Vietnam’s largest private conglomerate Vingroup.
U.S.-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Singapore-based Temasek struck the deals Monday by purchasing 201 million shares of the real estate giant on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange at VND75,000 ($3.25) apiece, according to a release from Vingroup.
The deal sent trading volume on the exchange soaring to VND22.7 trillion ($979 million), the second highest mark in 20 years.
KKR said in a statement that it sees Vinhomes as a leading real estate platform with unparalleled execution capabilities, access to a sizeable land bank and significant growth opportunities in residential, commercial and industrial real estate.
The American firm has been active in Vietnam for about a decade now. It has invested $359 million in consumer goods maker Masan Consumer and another $250 million in meat producer Masan MeatLife.
Singapore state investor Temasek is a stakeholder in Vietnam gaming firm VNG. Another Singapore state investor, GIC, holds 6 percent of Vinhomes.
Vinhomes’s VHM shares prices rose 7 percent to VND74,900 ($3.25) Tuesday.
It was the most profitable listed company in Vietnam in the first quarter with VND10.1 trillion ($431 million) in pretax profit, up 200 percent year-on-year.
- Group of investors invest 650 million USD in Vinhomes
- Foreign investors enter into a $650 million investment in Vinhomes.
- American global investment giant set for US$64 million profit on Vietnam’s Vinhomes share sale
- ‘One-trillion-dong profit club’ led by Vinhomes JSC
- Stock markets propelled by real estate, banking sectors
- Vingroup intensifies industrial estate focus
- VN-Index ends three-session gaining streak
- Vietnam index hits nine-month peak
- Shares gain on bank and real estate stocks


