Tungray Technologies (TRSG) doubled its $4.00 IPO price – and kept on climbing – to score a moonshot today (Friday, April 19, 2024) during its first day of trading  on the NASDAQ. Shares of Tungray traded at $9.51 at 11:23 a.m. EDT on the NASDAQ on volume of 905,671 shares. Tungray opened today at $6.58 – up $2.58 from its IPO price – at 10:20 a.m. EDT on volume of about 34,500 shares.

Tungray priced its IPO of just 1.25 million shares at $4.00 on Thursday night, April 18, 2024, to raise $5.0 million.

US Tiger Brokers served as the sole book-runner.

Tungray, based in Singapore, provides customized industrial manufacturing solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMS”) in the semiconductor, printer, electronics and home appliances sectors. Tungray describes itself as “an engineer-to-order (“ETO”) company, the prospectus says.

The Cayman Islands-incorporated holding company offered the stock  in the IPO – and not the underlying business.

Singapore is Tungray’s main development and factory location. The company also has manufacturing bases in China, in Qingdao and Shenzhen, the prospectus says.

Tungray is profitable, according to the prospectus. For the 12 months that ended June 30, 2023, Tungray reported net income of $1.51 million on revenue of $13.21 million.

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Centuri Holdings, Inc. (CTRI), a unit of Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. (SWX), priced its IPO at $21.00 – the top of its $18.00-to-$21.00 range – on Wednesday night (April 17, 2024) and sold 12.4 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $260.4 million. Shares of Centuri shot up 13.1 percent to open at $23.75 – up $2.75 from their IPO price – at around 11:49 a.m. EDT on Thursday (April 18, 2024) in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange. (Editor’s Note: This column, initially published Wednesday night, April 17, 2024, was updated on Thursday, April 18, with news on Centuri’s debut on the NYSE.)

UBS Investment Bank, BofA Securities,  J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo Securities were the joint book-runners.

“This is a plain vanilla deal with maybe a little extra chocolate sauce on top,” a veteran IPO trader says. “It should work.”

IPO investors like Carl Icahn’s connection to the deal. Two Icahn limited partnerships had agreed to buy 2.59 million shares at a price equal to the IPO price in a concurrent private placement, the prospectus says.

Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. (SWX), the parent of Centuri Holdings, sold all the shares in the IPO. After the IPO and the concurrent private placement, Southwest Gas Holdings will still own about 82.7 percent of Centuri’s outstanding stock, the prospectus says.

Centuri Holdings, based in Phoenix, is a leading pure-play North American utility infrastructure services company with over 110 years of operating history. Centuri partners with regulated utilities to maintain, upgrade and expand the energy network that powers millions of homes and businesses, the prospectus says.

“We are a leader in utility infrastructure services,” Centuri says in the prospectus.

“Our customers are leading electric, gas and combination utility companies across North America, including American Electric Power, Enbridge, Entergy, Exelon, NiSource, National Grid, Sempra Energy and Southern Company, among others,” the prospectus says.

Financial statements in the prospectus show that Centuri reported a net loss of $0.19 million on $2.9 billion of revenue for the fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2023.

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Ibotta (IBTA) priced its IPO at $88.00 – $4.00 above its $76.00-to-$84.00 range – on Wednesday night (April 17, 2024) on 6.56 million shares – the number of shares in the recently  upsized deal’s prospectus. Ibotta’s IPO raised $577.28 million. That price – $88.00 – confirmed the red-hot buzz swirling around the Denver-based digital ad platform’s IPO this week. (Editors’ Note: This column was updated early Thursday afternoon (April 18, 2024) to include the NYSE debut of Ibotta’s stock. The column was initially published Wednesday night (April 17, 2024).)

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, BofA Securities, Evercore ISI, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities were the joint book-runners.

Ibotta’s stock skyrocketed to open at $117.00 in its New York Stock Exchange debut early Thursday afternoon (April 18, 2024). By about 2 p.m. EDT, Ibotta had cooled off a little – trading at $99.99, up 13.63 percent from its IPO price of $88.00, on volume of about 2.71 million shares.

Allocations were expected to be minuscule – except for institutional investors ranked among the  top accounts at Goldman Sachs.

Ibotta  says it makes money only when a customer’s product promotion results in a sale.

Walmart, Family Dollar (a Dollar Tree subsidiary), Kroger and Shell are among Ibotta’s clients, the prospectus says.

“We work directly with over 850 different clients, representing over 2,400 different CPG brands to source exclusive offers as of Dec. 31, 2023,” Ibotta says in the prospectus. “Most of our offers cover products in non-discretionary categories, such as grocery, but we also work with general merchandise manufacturers in categories such as toys, clothing, beauty, electronics, pet, home goods, and sporting goods. Over time, our clients have generally ramped up their spend with us, and they rarely drop off our network. In fact, of our top 100 clients, 96 percent were retained from 2022 to 2023.”

Ibotta says its technology platform “uses an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled offer engine that is designed to match and distribute the right offer to the right consumer at the right time.”

For the year ended Dec. 31, 2023, Ibotta swung to a profit from a year-earlier loss, according to the prospectus.

Ibotta earned net income of $38.1 million on revenue of $320.0 million for 2023, the prospectus shows.

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Aviation part manufacturer Loar Holdings Inc. (LOAR Proposed) disclosed the terms for its IPO – 11.0 million shares at a price range of $24.00 to $26.00 – and launched the $275 million deal early today – Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The IPO is expected to price next week. (See: IPO Calendar ) This is a New York Stock Exchange listing. Loar is expected to have a market cap of $2.2 billion, based on mid-point pricing at $25.00.

Jefferies and Morgan Stanley are leading the joint book-runners’ team, which includes Citigroup, Moelis & Co. and RBC Capital Markets.

Most of the IPO’s proceeds will be used to pay off debt, Loar says in the prospectus.

Loar Holdings, based in White Plains, N.Y., designs, manufactures and sells “niche aerospace and defense components that are essential for today’s aircraft and aerospace and defense systems,” the prospectus says.

Auto throttles, lap-belt airbags, two- and three-point seat belts, water purification systems, fire barriers, polyimide washers and bushings and latches are among Loar’s products. The product offerings include hold-open and tie rods, temperature and fluid sensors and switches, carbon and metallic brake discs, fluid and pneumatic-based ice protection RAM air components, sealing solutions and motion and actuation devices, among others, according to the prospectus. 

About 85 percent of Loar’s 2023 net sales were derived from proprietary products where the company believes that it holds market-leading positions, Loar says in the prospectus.

Loar, founded in 2012, employs about 1,400 people.

For the year that ended Dec. 31, 2023, Loar reported a net loss of $4.62 million on revenue of $317.48 million, according to financial statements in the prospectus.

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Rubrik (RBRK Proposed), a data security company, unveiled the terms of its IPO – 23.0 million shares at $28.00 to $31.00 to raise $678.5 million – in an S-1/A filing early today (Tuesday, April 16, 2024). The IPO is expected to price next week. This is a New York Stock Exchange listing. The estimated proceeds assume mid-point pricing at $29.50. Rubrik would have a market cap estimated at $5.18 billion, if the IPO is priced at the $29.50 mid-point.

Goldman Sachs and Barclays are leading the team of joint book-runners, which includes Citigroup, Wells Fargo Securities, Guggenheim Securities and Mizuho Trust Securities. 

Rubrik, based in Palo Alto, California, is “on a mission to secure the world’s data,” the prospectus says. 

“Cyberattacks are inevitable. Realizing that cyberattacks ultimately target data, we created Zero Trust Data Security to deliver cyber resilience so that organizations can secure their data across the cloud and recover from cyberattacks. We believe that the future of cybersecurity is data security — if your data is secure, your business is resilient.

“We built Rubrik Security Cloud, or RSC, with Zero Trust design principles to secure data across enterprise, cloud, and software-as-a-service, or SaaS, applications. RSC delivers a cloud native SaaS platform that detects, analyzes, and remediates data security risks and unauthorized user activities. Our platform is architected to help organizations achieve cyber resilience, which encompasses cyber posture and cyber recovery. We enable organizations to confidently accelerate digital transformation and leverage the cloud to realize business agility.”

Rubrik also says that “traditional cybersecurity approaches have failed to not only prevent but also provide recovery from increasingly rampant and sophisticated cyberattacks. At the same time, legacy backup and recovery solutions have significant shortfalls in addressing cyber recovery and data security as they were primarily built for operational and natural disaster recoveries. They were not designed to enable reliable recovery from cyberattacks, nor were they designed to natively deliver cyber threat analytics and event response.”

The company is not profitable, according to financial statements in the prospectus.

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Two big IPOs – Centuri, a natural gas play, and Ibotta, an AI-driven digital ad platform – are in the spotlight today – Monday, April 15, 2024 – after Iran attacked Israel over the weekend. Both IPOs are set to price mid-week. Both are New York Stock Exchange listings. The rest of this week’s IPO Calendar consists of a handful of small IPOs and a modest NASDAQ uplisting deal.

U.S. stock futures rose early today. Bloomberg reported that global markets showed signs of stability and oil prices fell as traders bet that tensions in the Middle East won’t escalate after Iran’s attack on Israel. Brent oil futures slipped below $90 a barrel and U.S. crude oil futures dipped below $85 a barrel early today.

Gauzy Ltd., an Israeli company that makes light and vision control systems for leading aerospace, automotive and architecture companies, filed its F-1 on Monday to go public, without disclosing terms in the prospectus. The IPO’s size is estimated at $100 million, a placeholder figure. (The prospectus was published on Monday, April 15, 2024, in the SEC filings; the date on the cover of the prospectus is April 12, 2024.)

Barclays, TD Cowen and Stifel are the  joint book-runners of Gauzy’s IPO.

Good Timing for a Natural Gas IPO

The energy play, Centuri Holdings (CTRI Proposed), is a carve-out deal. Sole stockholder Southwest Gas Holdings Inc. (SWX) is offering all the stock in the natural gas pipeline company’s IPO. After the IPO. Southwest Gas will still own 82.7 percent of Centuri, the prospectus says.

Centuri’s customers are the leading electric, gas and combination utility companies in North America, the prospectus says.

Centuri’s IPO consists of 12.4 million shares at a price range of $18.00 to $21.00 to raise $241.8 million. The market cap is about $1.7 billion, assuming mid-point pricing at $19.50.

UBS Investment Bank, BofA Securities,  J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo Securities are the joint book-runners.

The IPO is set for pricing on Wednesday night, April 17, to trade Thursday, April 18, on the New York Stock Exchange.

“It’s right sector, right time,” a seasoned IPO pro says. “It’s (natural) gas. Look at oil right now, setting new highs. It’s in good shape. And there’s a private placement for Icahn.”

In conjunction with the IPO, Centuri is conducting a private placement of another 2.59 million shares at the IPO price to two investment vehicles controlled by Carl Icahn.

Centuri reported a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31, 2023.

Sweet Sound of Ka-Ching

Ibotta (IBTA Proposed) is a Denver-based digital ad platform company that says it makes money only when a customer’s product promotion results in a sale.

Walmart, Family Dollar (a Dollar Tree subsidiary), Kroger and Shell are among Ibotta’s clients, the prospectus says.

Ibotta’s IPO terms got the market’s attention: 5.63 million shares at a price range of $76.00 to $84.00 to raise $450.0 million, based on mid-point pricing at $80.00. Ibotta would have a market cap of about $2.43 billion.

“I did a double-take when I saw the price range,” a savvy IPO trader says.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and BofA Securities are the joint book-runners.

Ibotta is offering 2.5 million shares and the selling stockholders are  offering 3.125 million shares, the prospectus says.

Ibotta’s IPO is set for pricing on Wednesday night, April 17, to trade Thursday, April 18, on the NYSE.

Ibotta says its AI-enabled technology platform lets consumer product group brands deliver digital  promotions to over 200 million consumers through a single convenient network called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN).

“We are pioneers in success-based marketing: we only get paid when our client’s promotion results in a sale, not when a consumer merely views or clicks on the promotion,” Ibotta says in the prospectus.

For the year ended Dec. 31, 2023, Ibotta swung to a profit from a year-earlier loss, according to the prospectus.

Spring Awakening for IPOs

The IPO market scored some impressive gains last week. Those successful deals were part of the spring awakening that began in March with the Astera Labs and Reddit IPOs. Some IPO experts are optimistic that the IPO market may be regaining its health after two of the slowest years since 2008.

UL Solutions (ULS), the iconic name brand behind safety testing of electrical consumer products, priced its IPO at $28.00 and the stock jumped 24.79 percent to close Friday on the NYSE at $34.94.

A U.S. nursing home chain, PACS Group (PACS), priced its IPO at $21.00 and the stock shot up to close at $23.00 on Thursday, its first day of NYSE trading. On Friday, PACS Group’s stock continued its climb – closing at $24.00.

A small-cap IPO, Singapore’s Mobile-health Network Solutions, priced its IPO at $4.00 and the stock climbed on Thursday to close at $6.70 on the NASDAQ. Fast forward to Friday, April 12, when the stock closed at $15.00 – up 275 percent from its IPO price.

Stay tuned.

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Now that’s an upsizing: UL Solutions (ULS) increased its IPO’s size by 20 percent on Thursday night, April 11, 2024, and priced the deal at $28.00 – near the top of its range – to raise $946.4 million. The company’s parent, ULSE Inc., sold 33.8 million shares – up from 28.0 million in the prospectus.

UL Solutions’ stock ended its first day of trading at $34.94 – up $6.94 for a gain of 24.79 percent – in its debut on Friday, April 12, 2024, on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was 14.94 million shares. The trend was clear from the start. UL Solutions’ stock opened on Friday at $34.23 – up $6.23 or up 22.25 percent – in its debut on the NYSE. (Editor’s Note: This story was updated Friday afternoon on April 12, 2024, to add details on the debut of UL Solutions’ stock on the NYSE.)

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan led the joint book-runners’ team, which included BofA Securities, Citigroup, Jefferies and UBS Investment Bank.

ULSE Inc. (“UL Standards & Engagement”), the company’s sole stockholder before the IPO, sold all 33.8 million shares of Class A common stock in the IPO.

Cornerstone investor Norges Bank Investment Management, a division of Norges Bank, indicated an interest in buying up to $75 million of stock.

A Big Brand

The UL brand is a household name. It’s one of the most iconic brands in the world.

The “UL” in the company’s name stands for Underwriters Laboratories, which began testing electrical products for fire risks during the 1894 World’s Fair in Chicago.

UL Solutions provides testing, inspection and certification services on electrical consumer products to more than 80,000 customers worldwide. The company also offers software and advisory services. UL Solutions Inc. employs more than 14,000 people.

Dividends and Profits

This IPO also has dividend appeal. UL Solutions says in the prospectus that it intends to keep paying a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock, the prospectus says. Beginning in 2024, the company increased the regular quarterly dividend to 12.5 cents per share, “resulting in a $25 million dividend in the first quarter, which we paid in March 2024,” the prospectus says.

The quarterly dividend of 12.5 cents per share works out to 50 cents per share on an annualized basis – for a dividend yield of 1.8 percent if the IPO is priced at the $27.50 mid-point.

IPO investors liked the black ink on the bottom line. UL Solutions earned net income of $296 million on revenue of $2.62 billion for the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, 2023.

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PACS Group (PACS) upsized its IPO at pricing to 21.43 million shares – up from 19.05 million shares – and priced the deal at $21.00 – the mid-point of its $20.00-to-$22.00 range – to raise $450.0 million on Wednesday night, April 10, 2024. PACS Group’s stock opened today – Thursday, April 11, 2024 – on the New York Stock Exchange at $23.00 – up $2.00 or up 9.52 percent – from its $21.00 IPO price. The stock rose as high as $23.59. PACS Group was trading at $23.11 – up $2.11 or up 10.05 percent – at around 1:07 p.m. EDT on volume of about 4.31 million shares. (Editor’s Note: Column updated at midday on Thursday, April 11, 2024, to include the stock’s debut on the NYSE today.)

The profitable U.S. nursing home operator went public at a market cap of $3.15 billion.  

Household name UL Solutions Inc. (ULS Proposed) and nursing home operator PACS Group (PACS Proposed) share the IPO marquee this week with plans to raise a combined $1.2 billion. Both are New York Stock Exchange listings. Both are profitable companies whose IPOs are set to price this week. These two big IPOs are part of the IPO market’s revival that ramped up in March with the  Astera Labs (ALAB) and Reddit (RDDT) IPOs, as Bloomberg reported. Early today, digital ad promotions and rewards company Ibotta Inc. (IBTA Proposed) unveiled the terms of its $450.0 million IPO and launched the deal to price next week.

UL Solutions’ IPO is generating some buzz this week. In contrast, PACS Group’s IPO is a healthcare play that’s attracting interest – but not at the same level as UL Solutions’ deal.

Iconic Electrical Safety Brand

The initials “UL”  in UL Solutions’ name stands for Underwriters Laboratories, which began testing electrical products for fire risks during the 1894 World’s Fair in Chicago. 

“It’s a household name. It’s literally in everyone’s household,” a veteran IPO player says, citing the big brand behind the UL Solutions’ IPO.

The UL Solutions’ IPO is big: 28.0 million shares at a price range of $26.00 to $29.00 to raise $770.0 million, if priced at the $27.50 mid-point. The market cap is estimated at about $5.5 billion, based on mid-point pricing.

UL Solutions’ IPO is set for pricing on Thursday night, April 11, to trade Friday, April 12, on the NYSE.

Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are leading the joint book-runners’ team, which includes BofA Securities, Citigroup, Jefferies and UBS Investment Bank.

UL Solutions, based in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook, provides independent testing, inspection and certification (“TIC”) services and related software and advisory offerings. The company says it served more than 80,000 customers in over 110 countries in 2022.

“We are the owner of the iconic UL-in-a-circle certification mark (“UL Mark”) that appears on billions of products around the world,” UL Solutions says in the prospectus. “We offer our customers global market access services that help them ensure the safety and quality of their products while also supporting their efforts to manage the broader risks they face throughout their product lifecycle processes. We believe our extensive knowledge of, and expertise in, global safety science provides us with a strong competitive advantage relative to other global TIC service providers.”

An Aging Boomers’ Play

The PACS Group IPO benefits from the demographic trend – the aging of the Baby Boomers, who were born in the years from 1946 through 1964.

 PACS Group (PACS Proposed), the operator of skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities in nine states, is set to price its IPO on Wednesday night, April 10, 2024, to trade Thursday, April 11, on the NYSE.

The PACS Group IPO is large: 19.05 million shares at a price range of $20.00 to $22.00 to raise $400.1 million, if the deal is priced at the $21.00 mid-point. The market cap is estimated at $3.1 billion.

Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Truist Securities and RBC Capital Markets are the joint book-runners.

PACS Group, based in Farmington, Utah, describes itself as “a leading post-acute healthcare company primarily focused on delivering high-quality skilled nursing care through a portfolio of independently operated facilities,” the prospectus says.

“Founded in 2013, we are one of the largest skilled nursing providers in the United States based on number of facilities, with over 200 post-acute care facilities across nine states serving over 20,000 patients daily. We also provide senior care, assisted living, and independent living options in some of our communities.”

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Ibotta Inc. (IBTA Proposed), a Denver digital advertising rewards company, filed the terms for its IPO early today – Monday, April 8, 2024: 5.63 million shares (5,625,000 shares) at the eye-popping price range of $76.00 to $84.00 to raise $450.0 million, based on mid-point pricing at $80.00. This is a New York Stock Exchange listing. Ibotta would have a market cap of about $2.43 billion, assuming mid-point pricing.

The company is offering 2.5 million shares and the selling stockholders are  offering 3.125 million shares, according to the prospectus.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and BofA Securities are leading the joint book-runners’ team. Evercore ISI, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities are also on the joint book-runners’ team.

Ibotta’s IPO is scheduled for pricing next week.

Ibotta says its AI-enabled technology platform lets consumer product group brands deliver digital  promotions to over 200 million consumers through a single convenient network called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN).

“We are pioneers in success-based marketing: we only get paid when our client’s promotion results in a sale, not when a consumer merely views or clicks on the promotion,” Ibotta says in the prospectus. “We have built the largest digital item-level promotions network in the United States by forming strategic relationships with major retailers which use our digital offers to power their loyalty programs on a white-label basis.”

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