Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

The Presidents Day holiday closes Wall Street down on the third Monday of February. So this week, the Street is facing just a four-day work week. Only one IPO is on the calendar – a small-cap Chinese healthcare company. ZHONGCHAO (ZCMD proposed), based in Shanghai, provides healthcare information, education and training services to healthcare professionals […]

Revolution Medicines leads an IPO Calendar with six names on it during Valentine’s week – hot on the heels of February’s IPO market getting off to a great start. (We’ll have more on this week’s deals in a minute.) Bankers priced eight deals last week, raising $2.52 billion. On a 52-week basis, that would amount […]

February 2020 gets off to a red-hot start with 10 IPOs on the calendar for the first week of the month. Bankers expect to raise $2.4 billion. Eight of the 10 deals are new faces at the IPO window and two are carryovers from last week. From early indications, February 2020 could produce “better-then-average” IPO […]

Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN proposed) is the big name on the IPO Calendar for the final week of January 2020. Reynolds, known for its iconic products like Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil and Hefty trash bags, is expecting to raise about $1.25 billion in its IPO. That is about 42 percent of the dollar volume from […]

Wall Street was quiet today, as it always is on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday in honor of the slain U.S. civil rights leader’s birthday. The U.S. stock exchanges were closed today for MLK Day, which is observed on the third Monday in January. No IPOs are set this week. That was […]

The 2020 IPO market is opening right on time, if recent history is a guide. Five deals are on the IPO Calendar for the week of Jan. 13, 2020, and four are from China; more on this in a minute. Listed below are the pricing dates for the year’s first IPO, going back over the […]

This time last year, the outlook was bright for 2019’s IPO market. The word coming from Silicon Valley was that a number of unicorns were getting ready to prance down the street. (No IPOs are set for January 2020’s first week; more on that later.) A unicorn is a privately owned company with a valuation […]

The IPO Buzz will not be published today. IPOScoop is taking a brief break as the December holidays wind down. We will resume publishing the column after New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2020. Only one IPO was scheduled to start trading this week: Molecular Data (MKD proposed), a Shanghai-based chemicals e-commerce platform, said Monday that […]

The IPO market closed out 2019 last week with an unexpected opening-day moonshot. That was like a glass of complimentary Champagne just before the blank IPO Calendar for this holiday week, which includes Hanukkah and Christmas. The year-end moonshot came out of the blue last Thursday when Monopar Therapeutics (MNPR) scored an opening-day gain of […]

This week may be the finale for the 2019 IPO market. The IPO Calendar has two small-cap deals this week. After that, there is nothing scheduled for the week of Hanukkah and Christmas and the week that follows. But not to worry; the IPO market is merely following history. Let’s take a look at the […]