Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

                         

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

The much maligned IPO market is doing much better than people think. As of Friday’s close, March 5, a total of 75 percent of this year’s offerings had closed above their initial offering prices. That’s right -– three out of every four IPOs had closed above their offering prices this year. And they have outperformed the Nasdaq Composite Index by nearly 64 percent.

 

 

 

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

This year’s stock market topped out in mid-January, about the same time bankers unveiled the 2010 IPO calendar. The results for both over the last month have not been good. The major stock market indexes lost anywhere from 5.8 percent to 6.5 percent and IPOs have been floundering.

 

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

When the headlines blare that things look dark in the stock market, not everyone on Wall Street runs for cover.

 

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

While the Chinese IPOs were hitting a stone wall in lower Manhattan last week, the barbarians were swarming all over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s filing window in Washington, D.C. The message: China’s “out” and the good old U.S. of A. is “in.”

 

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

Don’t expect to find the latest edition of Penthouse magazine laying about your local Century 21 real estate office, but you will find each on this week’s IPO calendar. Both companies are planning on going public, but under different names.

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

 

“Friday’s child is loving and giving,” as the old nursery rhyme goes. But on Wall Street, this Friday could be a different story.

 

By: John E. Fitzgibbon, Jr.

“The only thing new is the history you don’t know,” said Harry S. Truman, the 33^rd president of the United States. That’s as true now as it was when Truman said it, and it applies to the 2010 IPO market as well.