Author Archives: Jan Paschal

GitLab, Inc. (GTLB proposed), a code-sharing software unicorn founded in Ukraine, raised the price range of its IPO early today to $66 to $69 – up from $55 to $60 initially –  reflecting its status as a hot deal. But it’s not the only game in town. AvidXchange Holdings, Inc. (AVDX proposed), which provides accounts […]

Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. (LTH) cut the size of its IPO – by about 15.6 percent – and priced the deal at $18 – the bottom of its $18-to-$21 range – on Wednesday night (Oct. 6, 2021). The downsizing of Life Time’s initial public offering followed the delay – for the second night – […]

Hair products brand Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (OLPX proposed) priced its IPO at $21 – $2 above the top of its increased price range of $17 to $19 – and increased the deal’s size to 73.7 million shares – on Wednesday night (Sept. 29, 2021). The beauty brand raised about $1.55 billion. The upsized IPO gave […]

Most IPO investors want  Toast, Inc. (TOST proposed) for breakfast this week. Bankers expect to raise about $5.24 billion from “a baker’s dozen” of deals. Twelve of this week’s 13 deals are traditional IPOs while one is a NASDAQ uplift. Toast, a payments software system that caters to the restaurant industry, helped its restaurant clientele survive […]

Wall Street’s September sky is full of IPOs soaring into the wild blue yonder this week.  Five of the seven IPOs that started trading on Wednesday, Sept. 15, jumped 50 percent or more from their IPO prices. Four of those deals popped 60 percent or more in their debuts, with one – DICE Therapeutics (DICE) […]

September promises to be a hectic month, if this morning’s traffic at the SEC is any indication. Six IPOs jumped on the IPO Calendar today for pricing in the week of Sept. 13, 2021, the second full week of the month. Bankers expect to raise $2.79 billion from these six IPOs, if all are priced […]

DoubleDown Interactive (DDI proposed), the South Korean mobile gaming app company, is rolling its digital dice this week. The company’s deal is the only traditional IPO on the IPO Calendar this week – usually one of the slowest weeks for the IPO market in the countdown to the Labor Day holiday weekend.  One tiny NASDAQ […]

No IPOs were scheduled for pricing this week – a sign that the IPO market is taking its traditional August break. The late summer slowdown traditionally begins around mid-August and usually lasts until about a week after the Labor Day holiday.  In the coming days and the next few weeks,  there may be a few […]

(Editor’s Note: This column was updated Thursday afternoon with the postponement of FinWise Bancorp and the closing price of Southern States Bancshares on its first day of trading.) Eliem Therapeutics (ELYM) jumped on Tuesday in its NASDAQ debut, opening at $16.25 – up 30 percent from its $12.50 IPO price. The biotech trimmed its IPO’s price to […]

Weber, Inc. (WEBR), the iconic grill brand, priced its IPO tonight at $14 – below its $15-to-$17 range – on 17.86 million shares – to raise $250 million. The pricing terms represented a cut of 67 percent in the deal’s size. Weber was the only household name on this week’s slim IPO Calendar – and […]