Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.
The IPO Buzz: Hitting the Gas
The IPO Calendar for the week of June 8th shows two deals looking to raise $552 million, but one – Vroom (VRM proposed) – has already increased its price range and accelerated its pricing date. That IPO hit the gas pedal before last week’s IPO market had even been put to bed. (We’ll have more […]
June 7, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending June 5, 2020
The IPO Buzz: June Starts with a Sizzle
June 2020’s IPO Calendar opens with some sizzle. Four deals are on tap and bankers expect to raise over $2.9 billion. But that’s not all. The word around Wall Street is that most of the IPOs are in play. Historically, the June IPO Calendar has been busy. Over the 19 years from June 2001 through […]
May 31, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending May 29, 2020
The IPO Buzz: A May Moonshot & Fun Facts
If this week’s outlook for the IPO Calendar holds, with nothing on tap, then May will close out with an opening-day moonshot. That was Inari Medical (NARI), and we’ll have more on this in a minute. But there is more good news. In addition to the moonshot, the 2020 IPO Scorecard showed an average gain […]
May 25, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending May 22, 2020
The IPO Buzz: Insurance Broker & A Blank Check
This week’s IPO Calendar came together on Friday with two companies set to make their public debuts. One is an online insurance comparison shopping platform with revenues and earnings, and the other is a blank check company raising money for a future acquisition. This follows a recent pattern of a single IPO and one or […]
May 18, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending May 15, 2020
The IPO Buzz: Where the Action Is
In today’s financial markets, the weekly IPO Calendar has been coming together on Mondays. With any luck, one or maybe two faces will appear on Friday afternoon. For this week, there is just a single name slated to be priced. But the calendar could follow the pattern that has developed in the past few weeks. […]
May 10, 2020 Read More