Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

The IPO Buzz: IPOs Built For Speed

Don’t believe the talk that the JOBS Act is slowing down the IPO traffic. It hasn’t. The numbers show the opposite. January 2013 was the busiest January in the last seven years. And February’s IPO market is looking to pick up where January left off.
 
February 3, 2013 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Five IPOs Get a Jumpstart

 
This week’s calendar lists five IPOs expecting to raise over $2.3 billion. Next week lists another five IPOs aiming to raise over $1.1 billion. There is nothing beyond that, but don’t give up on February’s calendar. This is becoming the new way of life as the JOBS Act settles into place.
 
January 27, 2013 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Child’s Play in a Short Week

A private-equity sponsored company and a retread from a 10-year-old new-issues calendar pretty well sums up this week’s IPO action. That’s not much, but it is better than this time a year ago. Only one deal got priced during the shortened Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday week in 2012. Those Monday holidays can sure slow down IPO traffic.
 
January 21, 2013 Read More

The IPO Buzz: New Year and High Yield

 
The 2013 IPO Express is pulling into the Wall Street Station this week. The train is on time and in sync with past years – mid-January arrival – and this week’s theme is income. People are thirsty for yield.
 
January 13, 2013 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Message in the IPO Median

 
Averages can be misleading. That’s what former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich told an investment bankers’ convention in 1994. He gave an example. He said if he (about 5 feet tall) got on an elevator with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (about 7 feet tall), the average height of the occupants would be 6 feet. He made his point.
 
January 6, 2013 Read More

The IPO Buzz: IPO Drama in 2012

There were three noteworthy stories in 2012’s IPO market. The first was the year’s most dramatic IPO. The next was a major change in how companies go public. And the third was this year’s stock market – it wrote the script to the IPO calendar.
 
December 31, 2012 Read More

The IPO Buzz: 2012 IPO Game Not Over

“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” said baseball Hall of Fame member Yogi Berra. And those words of wisdom apply to today’s IPO calendar. Three of last week’s proposed offerings were pushed into this week. By Friday, the 2012 IPO market just might be over.
 
December 16, 2012 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Sunset for the IPOs of 2012

 
This week, the 2012 IPO Express prepares to make its last run of the year. Today’s timetable is only following schedules from past years when the IPO traffic comes to its end by mid-December.
 
December 9, 2012 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Ride a White Horse

December’s IPO calendar opens with WhiteHorse Finance (WHF – proposed) – and it’s the only deal expected this week. But most don’t consider this a true initial public offering. This deal was filed under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) N-2 form, which is submitted by closed-end management investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
 
December 2, 2012 Read More

The IPO Buzz: Behind the Bare IPO Shelves

 
Don’t look now, but this week’s IPO calendar is clean and green. There’s nothing on it – much like the shelves of Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard. But there are reasons for the vanishing faces of IPOs. One is the stock market. The other is a change in the rules.
 
November 25, 2012 Read More