Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Talk about a healthy start.  Prime Medicine, Inc. (PRME) started NASDAQ trading shortly after noon EDT today at $18.97 – up $1.97 or 11.6 percent from its $17.00 IPO price. The first trade occurred at 12:11 p.m. EDT on volume of 532,337 shares, NASDAQ records show. By early afternoon, though, the stock gave up its early […]

Mobileye Global (MBLY proposed), Intel’s self-driving car unit, stepped on the gas early today – filing terms for its highly anticipated IPO – to give the Israeli company a valuation of about $15.13 billion. That’s a hair less than what Intel paid for Mobileye in 2017. Mobileye’s S-1/A filing popped through the SEC’s filing window […]

Momentum may be the word of the day. Prime Medicine, Inc. (PRME proposed) – a pre-clinical gene editing company – plans to raise $151.3 million this week. Mobileye Global (MBLY proposed), Intel’s self-driving car unit, may be up next. The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday (Oct. 17, 2022) that Mobileye is likely to cut […]

Two SPAC IPOs wrapped up the second week of October: Hudson Acquisition I Corp. (HUDAU) started trading on the NASDAQ today (Friday, Oct. 14, 2022) at $10.01, up a penny from its SPAC IPO price – and ended the day at $10.01. TenX Keane Acquisition (TENKU) also began NASDAQ trading today – opening at $10.04 – and […]

Aquaron Acquisition Corp. (AQUNU) priced its SPAC IPO – 5 million units at $10.00 each – on Monday night (Oct. 3, 2022) – to get the IPO machinery in gear for October. Aquaron’s IPO officially began trading on the NASDAQ at 11:10 a.m. EDT today (Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022) at $10.00 – flat with its […]

Mobileye made a big splash by filing to go public late Friday. Mobileye Global Inc. (MBLY proposed), Intel’s self-driving car unit, popped up with its S-1 filing in the SEC’s EDGAR database nearly an hour after the closing bell. Wall Street had already moved on to the weekend – cocktails on the rocks or not […]

Laser Photonics Corp. (LASE) priced its IPO – 3 million shares at $5.00 – on Thursday night (Sept. 29, 2022) to break the ice of the late September freeze. This tiny IPO is the first one approved by the NASDAQ after word went out on the Street last week that the exchange had put into […]

The Fed is in focus this week. One SPAC was priced Monday night (Sept. 19, 2022) to trade today. Wall Street’s attention, though, is on the Federal Reserve and its fight to curb inflation. The FOMC’s two-day meeting began today (Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022). Most Wall Street pros expect the Fed to raise the key […]

Corebridge Financial, Inc. (CRBG) priced its IPO – the biggest of the year – at $21, the low end of its $21-to-$24 range, on Wednesday night (Sept. 14, 2022). All 80 million shares – all offered by Corebridge Financial’s parent, AIG – were sold. The IPO raised $1.7 billion. But Corebridge will not see a […]

Corebridge Financial, Inc. (CRBG proposed) tops the IPO marquee this week. The AIG spin-off’s initial public offering – estimated at $1.8 billion – is the biggest deal of the year, exceeding TPG, Inc.’s (TPG) $1 billion IPO in January. Bankers plan to price the Corebridge IPO on Wednesday night (Sept. 14, 2022) – right on […]