Someone at ARKO Petroleum (APC) must love the number “11,” it seems. ARKO Petroleum (APC) increased its IPO’s size to 11.11 million shares – up from 10.5 million shares in the prospectus – and priced its IPO at $18.00 – the low end of its $18.00-to-$20.00 range – to raise $200 million on Wednesday night, Feb. 11, 2026. At pricing, ARKO Petroleum (APC) had a market cap of $830 million. (Editor’s Note: This column, published early today, was updated at midday with the NASDAQ debut of ARKO Petroleum.)
ARKO Petroleum (APC) started trading at midday on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, at $17.75 – down 25 cents from its IPO price – on the NASDAQ on volume of 866,655 shares. At the closing bell, ARKO Petroleum (APC) was at $17.55 – down 45 cents for a decline of 2.5 percent from its IPO price – in its first day of NASDAQ trading.
UBS Investment Bank led the team of joint book-runners Raymond James, Stifel, Mizuho and Capital One Securities.
ARKO Petroleum (APC) is a classic dividend play. The company plans to pay a quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share – an annual payout of $2.00 per share.
“I love it. It’s a shareholder-friendly thing to do,” a veteran IPO pro said.
The Richmond, Virginia-based company intends to use the IPO’s proceeds to pay off debt, according to the prospectus.
Raymond James and Capital One Securities are among the lenders that will be repaid. For that reason, they were deemed to have “conflicts of interest” with respect to their roles as underwriters in the IPO, the prospectus said.
ARKO Petroleum (APC) sells gasoline at the company’s nationwide network of convenience stores – and it also runs a wholesale fuel business and a fleet fueling business, according to the prospectus.
ARKO Corp., the parent company, will still control ARKO Petroleum (APC) after the IPO. ARKO Parent owns all of ARKO Petroleum’s Class B stock, which will represent 94.3 percent of the combined voting power of its Class A and Class B stock after the IPO, the prospectus said.
ARKO Petroleum (APC) is profitable, according to financial statements in the prospectus: It reported net income of $32.2 million on revenue of $5.72 billion for the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, 2025.
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