Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

There’s no dance floor at the NASDAQ, but maybe there should be. Hempacco Co. Inc. (HPCO), a hemp cigarette maker, opened at $38.00 at 10 a.m. EDT in its NASDAQ debut today (Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022) – up $32.00 for a gain of 533.33 percent from its $6.00 IPO price. Volume: 68,311 shares, NASDAQ records show. The stock hit […]

If you always wanted to channel your inner Cheech & Chong, now’s your chance. Hempacco Co. Inc. (HPCO proposed), a hemp cigarette maker, priced its IPO tonight (Monday, Aug. 29, 2022) at $6.00 and sold 1 million shares, matching the terms in the prospectus. The tiny IPO raised $6.0 million. The stock is expected to start […]

Israel, China and the healthcare sector are in play today (Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022) as Wall Street starts to wrap things up for the last full week of August. Up to six IPOs are set for pricing tonight with combined IPO proceeds estimated at $126.53 million. Two Israeli companies are in the mix today: –Mobilicom […]

To the moon and beyond: Starbox Group Holdings Limited (STBX) surged to $27.00 – up $23.00 from its $4.00 IPO price for a gain of 575 percent – in its opening trade at 10:52 a.m. EDT today (Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022) on the NASDAQ, according to NASDAQ records. That’s more than a moonshot. (When a stock […]

GigaCloud Technology (GCT) shares soared 73.22 percent in their NASDAQ debut today – touching an intraday high of $21.22, up $8.97 from their $12.25 IPO price. The flight took off at the opening trade. GigaCloud Technology shares opened at $19.20 on Thursday (Aug. 18, 2022). At the first tick, the stock was up $6.95 or 56.73 […]

Innovative Eyewear (LUCY/ LUCYW) priced its micro-cap unit IPO at $7.50 – the low end of its $7.50-to-$9.50 range – on Sunday (Aug. 14, 2022) and sold more units – 980,000 units, up from 882,353 units in the prospectus – to raise $7.35 million. This smart eyewear company’s IPO pricing kicks off the third week of […]

Double moonshots on Friday: Forza X1 (FRZA) jumped 192.8 percent to $14.64, while Reborn Coffee (REBN) climbed 149 percent to $12.45 at their intraday highs this morning on their first day of NASDAQ trading (Aug. 12, 2022). A moonshot occurs when a stock’s price doubles – in effect, gains 100 percent – or more from […]

Malaysian payment app Treasure Global Inc. (TGL) shares skyrocketed to close at $17.82 – up 345.50 percent from their $4.00 IPO price – in their NASDAQ debut on Thursday (Aug. 11, 2022). Treasure Global priced its small-cap IPO at the low end of its range and upsized the deal to 2 million shares on Wednesday night […]

The slight breeze in the August heat is coming from just a handful of deals on the IPO Calendar for the week of Aug. 8, 2022. Of seven deals on tap as of Monday afternoon, only three IPOs are in the mix – bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (BIAF proposed), a biotech’s tiny unit IPO; Forza X1, […]

Magic Empire Global Ltd. (MEGL) opened at $50.00 – up $46.00 from its $4.00 IPO price – for a gain of 1,150 percent in its first trade on the NASDAQ at 10:57 a.m. EDT this morning (Friday, Aug. 5, 2022). Volume was 12,702 shares, NASDAQ records showed. The small-cap IPO raised $20.0 million with the […]