Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.

The three companies set to go public this week have one thing in common. Their businesses are in sectors essential to survival – better healthcare and a clean water supply. One company is using gene-editing technology to develop treatments for sickle cell disease and other blood disorders. Another offers a wearable sensor for people with heart […]

This week opens with a federal holiday. The next afternoon, a religious holiday begins at sundown and closes down the following day. This makes for a quiet week on Wall Street. Nevertheless, four IPOs are set to make their debuts. Monday is Columbus Day, when U.S. commercial banks will close for the celebration. On Tuesday, […]

As the pages fold over on 2016’s third quarter, Sept. 30 left us with some interesting facts. The Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 9.7 percent for the quarter, the biggest gain among the three major U.S. stock market indexes. On the strength of the Nasdaq Composite, the IPO market surged back to life and September’s final […]

Wall Street’s IPO Business: The Worst in 20 Years – That headline splashed across the page in The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 22, 2016. The reporter produced a slew of statistics to support that headline. But not to worry: There is a good side to this story. The good news is this: Negative stories […]

There are nine IPOs on this week’s calendar – and we have to reach back over a year for more action. The last time an IPO calendar saw this much traffic was in June 2015, but don’t expect to see a landslide closing out September 2016. That is not going to happen. Here is the […]