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Published on 1/23/2018 in the Prospect News Structured Products Daily.

New Issue: GS Finance sells $38.07 million leveraged notes linked to Technology Select stocks

By Marisa Wong

Morgantown, W.Va., Jan. 23 – GS Finance Corp. priced $38.07 million of 0% leveraged notes due July 24, 2019 linked to an unequally weighted basket of the stocks of the 71 companies included in the Technology Select Sector index, according to a 424B2 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The notes are guaranteed by Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

The payout at maturity will be par plus 1.5 times any basket gain, subject to a maximum settlement amount of $1,212.25 per $1,000 principal amount. Investors will share fully in losses.

The basket was selected on Dec. 31 and includes all of the constituents of the index at that time. The initial weight of each basket stock is equal to its weight in the index as of Dec. 31. However, the basket stocks and their initial weights will differ from the index constituents and their weights in the index throughout the life the notes, and the performance of the basket may not correlate with the performance of the index.

Goldman Sachs & Co. is the underwriter.

Issuer:GS Finance Corp.
Guarantor:Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Issue:Leveraged notes
Amount:$38,065,000
Maturity:July 24, 2019
Coupon:0%
Price:Par
Payout at maturity:Par plus 1.5 times any basket gain, return capped at 21.225%; full exposure to losses
Pricing date:Jan. 19
Settlement date:Jan. 26
Underwriter:Goldman Sachs & Co.
Fees:1.25%
Cusip:40055AER4
Underlying basket
StockSymbolWeightInitial price
Apple Inc.AAPL14.6983%$178.46
Microsoft Corp.MSFT11.1633%$90.00
Facebook, Inc.FB7.1188% $181.29
Alphabet Inc. (class C)GOOG5.3434% $1,137.51
Alphabet Inc. (class A)GOOGL 5.3111% $1,143.50
AT&T Inc.T4.0383% $37.21
Intel Corp.INTC3.6689% $44.82
Visa Inc.V3.5121% $122.70
Cisco Systems, Inc.CSCO3.2164% $41.29
Verizon Communications Inc.VZ3.0218% $51.91
Oracle Corp.ORCL2.4484% $50.58
Mastercard Inc.MA2.3940% $166.83
International Business Machines Corp.IBM2.2447% $162.37
Nvidia Corp.NVDA2.0335% $230.11
Broadcom Ltd.AVGO1.7856% $266.39
Texas Instruments Inc.TXN1.7581% $116.83
Accenture plcACN1.6140% $161.75
Qualcomm Inc.QCOM1.6086% $68.04
Adobe Systems Inc.ADBE1.4798% $195.73
PayPal Holdings, Inc.PYPL1.4282% $83.84
salesforce.com, inc.CRM1.2007% $111.93
Applied Materials, Inc.AMAT0.9438% $57.40
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.ADP0.8920% $121.44
Micron Technology, Inc.MU0.8370% $42.75
Activision Blizzard, Inc.ATVI0.8349% $70.57
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.CTSH0.7206% $77.29
Intuit Inc.INTU0.6622% $167.74
eBay Inc.EBAY0.6351% $38.43
HP Inc.HPQ0.6108% $23.70
TE Connectivity Ltd.TEL0.5821% $100.73
Analog Devices, Inc.ADI0.5746% $96.14
Electronic Arts Inc.EA0.5619% $116.18
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.FIS0.5472% $98.47
Lam Research Corp.LRCX0.5269% $207.53
Corning Inc.GLW0.4835% $34.66
Fiserv, Inc.FISV0.4739% $138.11
Amphenol Corp.APH0.4689% $93.13
DXC Technology Co.DXC0.4580% $100.98
Western Digital Corp.WDC0.4167% $85.60
Autodesk, Inc.ADSK0.4084% $115.29
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.HPE0.3953% $16.08
Paychex, Inc.PAYX0.3804% $69.49
Red Hat, Inc.RHT0.3757% $125.94
Microchip Technology Inc.MCHP0.3669% $97.45
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.SWKS0.3102% $99.20
Symantec Corp.SYMC0.3083% $27.46
Xilinx, Inc.XLNX0.3010% $75.71
KLA-Tencor Corp.KLAC0.2931% $115.02
CenturyLink, Inc.CTL0.2850% $17.31
Global Payments Inc.GPN0.2845% $108.01
NetApp, Inc.NTAP0.2745% $63.09
Motorola Solutions, Inc.MSI0.2619% $97.80
Total System Services, Inc.TSS0.2391% $83.25
Citrix Systems, Inc.CTXS0.2232% $92.72
Seagate Technology plcSTX0.2226% $52.62
Alliance Data Systems Corp.ADS0.2170% $261.82
Synopsys Inc.SNPS0.2166% $92.61
Ansys, Inc.ANSS0.2119% $161.54
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.CDNS0.1998% $45.60
Akamai Technologies, Inc.AKAM0.1978% $65.63
Juniper Networks, Inc.JNPR0.1947% $27.85
Gartner, Inc.IT0.1888% $137.35
CA, Inc.CA0.1878% $34.07
VeriSign, Inc.VRSN0.1762% $114.48
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.AMD0.1624% $12.59
The Western Union Co.WU0.1571% $20.24
Qorvo, Inc.QRVO0.1558% $68.40
F5 Networks, Inc.FFIV0.1499% $138.76
FLIR Systems, Inc.FLIR0.1249% $52.40
Xerox CorporationXRX0.1124% $31.80
CSRA Inc.CSRA0.0987% $32.16

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