Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

During the U.S. stock market’s wild roller-coaster ride, the phones rang last week. The financial media called IPOScoop.com with the burning question: “How is the stock market’s correction affecting IPOs?” That was an easy one to answer. It isn’t. School is out. The IPO market traditionally closes down between mid-August and mid-September. (See The IPO […]

The eyes and ears of the financial world were glued to the corner of Broad and Wall Streets on Friday. The granddaddy of the U.S. stock market indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, plunged over 500 points for the day and lost over 1,000 points for the week. The Dow moved into correction mode – […]

The IPO Express blew through Wall Street on its final run of the summer last week and its cargo did not disappoint: It delivered an opening-day moonshot and a blank check that had some pop. A moonshot is any IPO that closes it opening day with a gain of 100 percent or more. Lighting Up […]

This week is the IPO calendar’s final summer run – or for fans of the late disco diva Donna Summer, it’s the “Last Dance” before Labor Day. Five deals are set, with bankers expecting to raise a little over $550 million. Then there is nothing on tap until after Labor Day, which falls on Sept. […]

Fitbit (FIT) exploded for an open-day gain of 48.4 percent on June 18 and that opened the calendar to fitness IPOs. This week has two deals from this sector: Amplify Snack Brands (BETR – proposed) and Planet Fitness (PLNT – proposed) and both are reportedly on everybody’s “most wanted” list. There is more. Last week […]

Last week, the U.S. stock market took a hard hit as the leading indexes lost over well over 2 percent each, but a couple of IPOs defied gravity. We don’t know what this week’s stock market will bring, but the calendar has a couple of new issues that have similar traits to last week’s IPO […]

With 12 IPOs already launched this month and another seven looking to be priced over the next two weeks, July’s traffic is headed to the record book as “well above average.” Since 2001, July’s monthly calendar has generated 204 IPOs, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. That makes an “average” July amount […]

Don’t look now, but the IPO Express is pulling into the Wall Street Station – right on time with recent years. This week’s calendar delivers its first IPO about two weeks after the July 4th holiday break. The downtime is in keeping with the recent past and is no reflection of current stock market conditions. […]

June’s final week closed out the IPO second quarter and first half of 2015 with a pre-Fourth of July explosion – a moonshot. Seres Therapeutics (MCRB) popped Friday for an opening-day gain of 185.6 percent. This was the fourth IPO to do so this year. Note: An IPO moonshot is any deal that ends its […]

Wall Street closes out the second quarter of 2015 with the largest IPO calendar of the year. It has 16 deals that could raise over $2.6 billion. Now that’s a “Sweet 16” scenario that even the toughest Wall Street bankers could love. Looking back, the largest previous calendar was for the week of July 28, […]