Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Arm Holdings plc (ARM) shares shot up 24.7 percent to close at $63.59 – up $12.59 from their $51.00 IPO price – in their first day of NASDAQ trading on Thursday (Sept. 14, 2023). The day got off to a great start for Arm, the biggest U.S. IPO in nearly two years. Arm’s stock jumped 10 percent […]

Birkenstock let the other sandal drop after the close. The iconic German sandal manufacturer filed its F-1 late this afternoon (Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023) without disclosing terms for its U.S. IPO other than the proposed symbol “BIRK” and the venue. This will be a New York Stock Exchange listing. Birkenstock’s IPO filing comes near the […]

Instacart, Inc. (CART proposed) filed terms for its long-awaited IPO – 22.0 million shares at $26.00 to $28.00 – early today (Monday, Sept. 11, 2023). Of the 22.0 million shares, Instacart is offering only 14.1 million shares, while selling stockholders are offering 7.9 million shares. If the IPO is priced at the $27.00 mid-point of […]

The IPO market kicks into high gear this week. SoftBank Group’s chip CPU unit  Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) is set to price its $4.7 billion IPO – the biggest IPO since Rivian (RIVN) in November 2021 – on Wednesday night (Sept. 13, 2023). Instacart (CART proposed), the online grocery delivery service, is expected to disclose its […]

SoftBank Group’s Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) showed its IPO cards early today: 95.5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a price range of $47.00 to $51.00 to raise $4.68 billion ($4,679.5 million) in what will be the biggest IPO of 2023, according to its F-1 filing dated Sept. 5, 2023. If Arm prices its […]

Wall Street hopes that a September gold rush will start when SoftBank’s Arm files terms for its IPO after Labor Day. SoftBank’s chip CPU design unit Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) is likely to disclose its IPO terms in an SEC filing at the crack of dawn on Tuesday (Sept. 5, 2023) as Wall Street […]

Inspire Veterinary Partners (IVP) priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$6.00 range – to raise $6.4 million on Tuesday night (Aug. 29, 2023). The regional U.S. veterinary hospital chain’s IPO priced 1.6 million shares – the same number of shares in the prospectus. The IPO was increased to 1.6 million […]

Instacart finally gave the Street what it wanted. The San Francisco-based online grocery app’s parent, Maplebear Inc., filed Instacart’s long-awaited S-1 on Friday (Aug. 25, 2023) for an IPO that some IPO pros say could raise up to $1 billion. Instacart’s IPO filing had been on Wall Street’s watch list for at least the past […]

Marketing data company Klaviyo, Inc. (KVYO proposed) filed to go public today (Friday, Aug. 25, 2023) in an IPO with a placeholder amount of $100 million. Boston-based Klaviyo plans to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Klaviyo’s IPO filing is among a handful of closely watched IPOs that Wall Street sees as […]

At last. SoftBank Group Corp.’s semiconductor subsidiary Arm Holdings Ltd. (ARM proposed) filed its F-1 late Monday afternoon (Aug. 21, 2023) without disclosing terms in what will be 2023’s biggest IPO. The filing ended Wall Street’s watch party of the last few weeks. Arm’s IPO could raise about $8 billion to $10 billion, according to […]