Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.

On Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, CNFinance Holdings (CNF proposed), a major provider of home equity loans in China, filed an amendment to its IPO prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It was noteworthy. The company changed underwriters, announced pricing terms and disclosed that non-insider investors were looking to buy into the IPO. Most […]

Most investors will remember late October for the stock market’s sharp selloff last week, but there was a silver lining tucked inside some of those clouds of gloom. There was a change in the wordage of a few final prospectuses. Before getting into that, let’s take a quick look at what happened at the corner […]

When the IPO Calendar wakes up on the wrong side of Wall Street and everybody is smiling, something went right. The eight IPOs priced last week closed Friday with an average gain of 15.15 percent, while the major U.S. stock market indexes were mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week with a gain […]

Wall Street is planning on offering an ambitious IPO calendar in the wake of last week’s sharp stock market selloff. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 3.74 percent. Bankers plan to price 10 deals looking to raise $1.87 billion, but investors’ interest is said to have backed off a little due to market conditions. The Nasdaq […]

The road to the IPO market always runs through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s filing window. Last week was a classic example. Between Monday morning, Oct. 1, 2018, and Friday afternoon, Oct. 5, the SEC filing window booked 11 companies planning to offer their IPOs. Those 11 were looking to raise $1.95 billion. Another […]