Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Hey, January, don’t let the door hit you in the rear on the way out. It’s been widely reported that January 2016 went into the history books producing no IPOs. The last time a January failed to price an IPO was in 2009, but that wasn’t the first time. Going back to 1974, it has […]

Wall Street’s investment bankers will give the IPO market another shot to launch 2016 this week. On tap are four deals, looking to raise about $234 million. Last week, there were two offerings: One was pushed into this week and the other postponed due to “market conditions.” That’s the key to IPOs – “market conditions.” […]

Over the weekend, a New York City radio station broadcast that stocks are in a bear market, “according to analysts.” They got it wrong. A bear market happens when the market sells off 20 percent or more from its previous high. A correction happens when the market sells off 10 percent or more from its […]

The stock market got off to a memorable start last week. It began the year like no other. With Chinese stocks plunging and oil prices falling, the major U.S. stock market indexes got pounded. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1,078.58 points to close at 16,346.45, DOWN 6.19 percent for the week and the year […]

There are no shortages of names of companies that could go public this year, but there are two things needed to make this magic happen: A friendly stock market and IPO leadership. Both happened during the first part of 2015. The stock market got off to a good start and IPO leadership came from the […]

The financial media’s headlines have been blaring: “2015 – The Worst Year for IPOs Since 2009” and it was. On the other hand, the year was not as bad as reported. Reaching back through the stats to 2005, the IPO traffic for this year turned out to be the mean point between 2005 and 2015. […]

A unicorn pranced out on the IPO stage last week, kicked up its heels and scored an opening-day gain of 32.3 percent. In November, another unicorn did the same – with an opening-day gain of 45.2 percent. And as the year began, another unicorn started the 2015 parade with an opening-day pop of 65.9 percent. […]

The eyes and ears of Wall Street will be focused on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s website Monday morning, Dec. 7, to see if 2015’s IPO window closes this week or next. At present, the calendar has only one deal on tap for December. It is Atlassian (TEAM – proposed), the Australian software company, […]

NBC reported 50 million viewers watched the Thanksgiving Parade on Thursday, but that was not the case about 3-1/2 miles south of Macy’s in Herald Square. On Wall Street, nobody was watching the IPO calendar. There is nothing on tap for this week. However, a few footsteps were heard in the quiet canyons of Wall […]

Everybody expected thunder and lightning from Square’s (SQ) IPO last week and they got it, but not quite the way it came down. As it turns out, Pythagoras was on to something all those years ago. The world isn’t square. There was a lot of controversy about Square’s relationship with Starbucks, Chairman Jack Dorsey’s dual […]