Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

By Jan Paschal: Wall Street is in countdown mode for Lyft’s IPO, set for pricing Thursday night and a trading debut on NASDAQ on Friday morning.  The intense interest in Lyft brings to mind the excitement in the days leading up to Alibaba’s IPO in September 2014 – and that’s good for the IPO market. […]

By Jan Paschal: Levi Strauss (LEVI proposed) leads the list of five IPOs coming to market this week. And the whispers circulating around Wall Street say that Lyft (LYFT proposed) is about to start its road show. But Levi Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker with a market valuation of about $5.78 billion, isn’t the […]

Don’t look now, but there is nothing on this week’s IPO Calendar. For the IPO Calendar to go blank during March is unusual, but it has happened. The last time this happened in March was in 2016. Nothing came to market during the week of March 14, 2016. But there were a few things that […]

Lyft (LYFT proposed) filed its long-awaited IPO underwriting papers around noontime on Friday, March 1st. That ushered in the “Days of the Unicorns” for the IPO Calendar. A unicorn is a private company with a valuation of $1 billion or more. Lyft is valued at $11.5 billion, CBInsights reports. Uber, its ride-share rival, is valued […]

By Jan Paschal: Will Rogers was fond of saying that “all I know is what I read in the papers.” The latest headlines are buzzing with anticipation that Lyft, the No. 2 ride-share app, will make its confidential filing public sometime this week and beat its giant rival Uber to the IPO punch. Meanwhile, only […]

and Jan Paschal: Just one deal is on tap this week. But investors are dreaming of a robust IPO Calendar anticipated in March. Big names like Levi Strauss, which filed last week, and Uber, which did a confidential filing late last year, are driving the interest in IPOs to come. Acamar Partners Acquisition (ACAMU proposed) […]

Six IPOs are on tap this week – with nothing on the IPO Calendar for the rest of February – as another U.S. government shutdown looms if a bipartisan border security deal can’t be reached by midnight on Friday. Border talks hit a snag on Sunday, increasing the possibility that a second shutdown could occur. […]

When the NYSE’s opening bell rings on Monday morning, Feb. 4, there will be an IPO calendar of six deals for the week. Three are blank check offerings and three are biotech companies. A half-dozen deals in a week may not seem like much, but based upon a 52-week calendar, that would amount to 312 […]

The word came from Washington on Friday afternoon that the U.S. government’s 35-day shutdown was over until Feb. 15th. That gives the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street bankers time to get back to work. But if you look closely, they already have. The IPO Calendar already has five names on it – […]

There are two unusual things shaping this week’s IPO market.  When the sun came up today, Wall Street was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday celebrating the birthday and the legacy of the slain civil rights leader. He would have turned 90 on Jan. 15th. When the U.S. stock market closes […]