Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

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 […]

October 2018’s IPO market kicks off with six deals looking to raise $783.49 million. That’s not a bad October opening. If every week of October keeps up that pace, then this month would turn out about 25 IPOs. That’s an “above average” performance for October, based on records going back 17 years. Let’s take a […]

September’s IPO market is going out with a bang. The calendar has 13 new issues looking to raise over $1.1 billion this week.  If everything gets out the door, that will increase September 2018’s traffic to 26 IPOs. That will be the busiest September since 1999 when 43 IPOs were priced, according to the U.S. […]

The IPO market ended with a flop, a pop and a moonshot last week. This week features an IPO traffic jam: Six IPOs are set for pricing on Thursday night to raise almost $3.1 billion. The observance of Yom Kippur from sundown Tuesday through Wednesday evening all but closes Wall Street down. Worth noting: Three […]

The IPO market is dancing to Wall Street’s playbook. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chipped in with 14 filings last week: Four new companies moved into the IPO pipeline and 10 companies filed amendments to their prospectuses. Most of those names found themselves on the IPO Calendar, waiting to go public. From the […]

All you need to know about the IPO market can be found in two places. The first is the calendar. It tells you when IPOs are to be priced. The other place is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing window. It tells you what is going into the IPO pipeline for future pricings. […]

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” That’s one of baseball legend Yogi Berra’s most famous lines. And that pretty well sums up the IPO market for August 2018. Historical data show the IPO traffic generally dries up in mid-August. This year, though, was different. Every week you would think that the new-issue calendar was done […]

This summer’s IPO market is turning out to be much like the B-grade horror movies of yesteryear. Every time you think the monster has been killed, surprise! It crawls back out of the shadows. Bankers found two SPACs, or “blank check” companies, to go public this week and they mixed in a reshuffled carryover from […]