This week’s calendar is expected to print over $1 billion worth of IPOs. There are only three deals on the launching pad, but the buzz around Wall Street is all are inplay. That being said, let’s get to them. They are in the order of size: MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP – proposed) plans to […]
April 17, 2016 Read MoreBats Global Markets (BATS – proposed), the fintech operator of an electronic stock exchange, plans to price its IPO this week. This isn’t the first time at bat for Bats. Back on the evening of Thursday, March 22, 2012, BATS Global Market (the old name featured all caps – now it’s Bats Global Markets) priced […]
April 10, 2016 Read MoreThe stock market closed Friday at a new high for 2016, but IPOs were nowhere in sight. Maybe the problem is the underperformance of the NASDAQ Composite Index. Even though the NASDAQ closed last week at 4,914.54, it was still DOWN 1.85 percent for the year. It closed at 5,007.41 on Dec. 31, 2015. In […]
April 3, 2016 Read MoreThis week, this month and the first quarter of 2016 close out with just one small-cap IPO of $20 million on the calendar. Due to the U.S. stock market’s recent correction, this year’s IPO traffic has all but dried up. No record lows in volume, but close to it. One can reach back to 1970 […]
March 27, 2016 Read MoreThe wind under the wings of the equity capital markets (ECM) calendar is a rising stock market. It has always been that way, and if history repeats itself, the return of the IPO market could be sooner rather than later. Consider: All the major U.S. stock market indexes have reversed the recent correction. At Friday’s […]
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