# FS.COM Pays RMB330M ($46M) to Fully Absorb Shanghai Baud Data Comms

By Ray Termsheet · 2026-08-25 · Deals & Funding · https://datacommenter.com/fs-com-pays-rmb330m-46m-to-fully-absorb-shanghai-baud-data-comms/
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> Hong Kong-listed FS.COM Limited said on August 21, 2026 it has closed the buyout of the remaining stake in Shanghai Baud Data Communication for RMB330 million, folding a minority-held manufacturing…

Original reporting: [The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-news/Tipranks/3965677/fs-com-completes-rmb330-million-acquisition-of-shanghai-baud-data-communication/)
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This is a vertical-integration play, not a market entrant: FS.COM, a PRC-focused communication-equipment maker, is buying out the minority stake it didn’t already own in Shanghai Baud Data Communication for RMB330 million (roughly $46 million), turning a partly-owned affiliate into a wholly consolidated subsidiary, according to the company’s own disclosure carried by The Globe and Mail. The winner is FS.COM’s balance sheet and supply chain control; the payers are whoever held that minority stake, who exit at what the filing calls a premium to their last valuation.

For data-infrastructure watchers outside China, the deal is a reminder that the physical layer underneath data pipelines — optical transceivers, network hardware, the manufacturing platforms that make them — is consolidating just as aggressively as the data-licensing layer on top of it. FS.COM’s own disclosure admits the target carries a net liability position and a history of losses and impairments, which it says it weighed against R&D investment and expected synergies; that’s company-supplied justification for a related-party-adjacent price, not an independently verified valuation.

> A RMB330 million buyout that leans on self-reported synergy math is a bet on integration, not proof the price is fair.

Watch whether FS.COM discloses post-consolidation margins from Baud’s manufacturing capacity, and whether other PRC comms-equipment players follow with similar buy-in-the-minority moves as domestic supply chains tighten around fewer, fully owned nodes.

> The consideration of RMB330 million was set after arm's length negotiations, reflecting a premium to the target's last minority exit valuation and taking into account its revenue, positive gross profit base and operational capabilities.
> — [The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-news/Tipranks/3965677/fs-com-completes-rmb330-million-acquisition-of-shanghai-baud-data-communication/)

[Read the full story at The Globe and Mail →](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-news/Tipranks/3965677/fs-com-completes-rmb330-million-acquisition-of-shanghai-baud-data-communication/)

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