** Smithfield Foods SFD.O edges up in Nasdaq debut on Tues after IPO priced well shy of expectations
** SFD opens at $21.05 vs $20 IPO price. Stock last trading at $20.08
** Largest U.S. pork processor and its Hong Kong-listed parent WH Group 0288.HK each sold ~13.04 mln shares for total raise of ~$522 mln
** They had intended to offer 34.8 mln shares, split equally, at $23-$27, for up to ~$940 mln raise
** WH's chairman, Wan Long, agreed to buy up to $64 mln of IPO shares, which is being funded by a commercial loan, according to a late filing
** WH, which bought co in 2013 for $4.7 bln and took it private, will still own more than 90% of SFD
** Morgan Stanley, BofA, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Citigroup are jt bookrunners for the IPO
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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