Author Archives: Jan Paschal

The NASDAQ Composite Index surged 6.1 percent last week to close at 8,650.14, joining the Dow and the S&P 500 in bull market territory. All this blows some wind into Wall Street’s sails – and there is an IPO on the calendar this week. There’s also a stockholders’ vote this week on the DraftKings deal, […]

Spring is off to a rocky start on Wall Street with no end in sight yet to the roller-coaster ride. U.S. stock futures started trading limit down on Sunday night after the Senate failed to approve a stimulus package worth more than $1 trillion to help the economy weather the coronavirus pandemic. The steep slide […]

The IPO Buzz will not be published today. IPOScoop is taking a brief break as the December holidays wind down. We will resume publishing the column after New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2020. Only one IPO was scheduled to start trading this week: Molecular Data (MKD proposed), a Shanghai-based chemicals e-commerce platform, said Monday that […]

The first week of November features a $2.4 billion IPO Calendar, with one deal – GFL Environmental – accounting for most of that volume. GFL, the Canadian trash and recycling giant, aims to raise $1.9 billion. It’s among 10 IPOs on tap this week. Health care is the dominant sector this week. Five of the […]

Just three IPOs are on the calendar this week, when Halloween falls on Thursday.  That’s a wrap as well for October.  A cannabis SPAC, a biotech and an online platform for Chinese real estate agents are in this week’s IPO mix. Bankers expect these three deals to raise $283 million, based on the midpoint of […]

A fertility benefits management company is among eight deals on this week’s IPO Calendar. Bankers expect to raise $830.5 million. Progyny (PGNY proposed) manages fertility benefits for some of the country’s most prominent employers, its prospectus says. Some would say that Progyny’s IPO is a sign of the times. More employers are offering insurance coverage […]

You probably wouldn’t buy a car or make any other major purchase without doing some homework. The same rule applies to buying stock in an IPO. Reading the prospectus isn’t just fundamental. It could prevent heartburn or a hole in your bank account. Just three deals are on tap this week, and only two are […]

Two biotechs and a Midwestern bank make up this week’s IPO Calendar. That’s it. Bankers expect to raise $550.22 million from these three deals. This lineup extends the trend last week when five biotechs plus a Southern bank were set to go public. Two of those five biotech deals got pulled last week “due to […]

The IPO Buzz will not be published today. There are no IPOs scheduled for pricing this week – a sure sign that the seasonal slowdown is in full sway in the countdown to the long Labor Day holiday weekend. If any IPOs land on the IPO Calendar later this week, we will publish The IPO […]

The party was at the SEC’s filing window last week, when WeWork and Cloudflare made headlines by filing their long-awaited public S-1 documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The light and the heat generated by these two filings overshadowed the seasonal slowdown of the IPO market in mid-August – almost as if a […]