Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.

The 2018 IPO market closes out its first month on Wednesday, Jan. 31st, with 13 deals in the record books. This week’s calendar lists another eight IPOs expected to debut in February. These are good numbers – and well ahead of the averages. The median January average was seven IPOs, according to the U.S. Securities […]

This week’s IPO calendar comes to life with 11 deals expecting to raise $3.15 billion. The health-care sector represents eight of the 11 IPOs on tap – a trend that’s a blast from the past. But that’s not the only retro item on this week’s radar. Washington, D.C., is in the headlines again with the […]

The mood on Wall Street picked up last week with the word that Dropbox filed confidentially for an IPO. Dropbox, the photo and video file-sharing and storage service, generated enough light and heat in the headlines to show that January 2018 was starting off with a bang. Consider what took place. Two IPOs made it […]

January 2018 opened its first week with some eye-popping news. Spotify reportedly filed for a direct listing and bankers quietly filed pricing dates for six IPOs to raise nearly $3.1 billion. And we were only five days into the month. Spotify’s plans to go public came in the form of a confidential filing with the […]

While the major U.S stock market indexes closed out 2017 a shade off record highs, the IPO market could best be described as winding up a “recovery year.” Investment bankers turned out a total of 151 IPOs in 2017, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. That was up from 94 IPOs in […]