Author Archives: Jan Paschal

StubHub Holdings (STUB Proposed) dropped the mic on its IPO early today: The ticket reseller is offering 34.04 million shares at a price range of $22.00 to $25.00 to raise $799.94 million, if the IPO is priced at the $23.50 mid-point of its range. At pricing, StubHub would have a market cap of about $8.64 […]

Fitness Champs Holdings Ltd. (FCHL) of Singapore priced its small IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$5.00 range – and raised $15 million by selling 3.75 million shares – the number in the prospectus – on Wednesday night, Sept. 3, 2025. Fitness Champs’ stock ended its first day of NASDAQ trading at […]

Klarna (KLAR Proposed) popped out of the box by disclosing the plans for its $1.24 billion IPO – leading a flurry of five IPOs launched early today with combined proceeds of about $3 billion. (Please see our IPO Calendar for details.) This is the burst of IPO activity after Labor Day that Wall Street had […]

Four big deals slid into the IPO pipeline on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 – in a sign that the IPO market may be in store for a hot September after the Labor Day holiday break. (Editor’s Note: This column, initially published early Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, was updated on Monday afternoon, Aug. 25, 2025.) These […]

Elite Express Holding Inc. (ETS), which provides last-mile delivery services in California, trimmed its small IPO at pricing to 3.8 million shares – down from 4.0 million shares in the prospectus – and priced the IPO at $4.00, as planned – to raise $15.2 million on Wednesday night, Aug. 20, 2025. Elite Express shares opened […]

Cantor Equity Partners IV (CEPF) raised $400 million – as planned – with the pricing of its stock-only SPAC IPO – consisting of 40 million shares at $10.00 each- on Wednesday night, Aug. 20, 2025. Shares of Cantor Equity Partners IV started trading today – Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 – at $10.13 – up 13 […]

Figure (FIGR Proposed), a blockchain FinTech company, led a flurry of filings today and late Friday that hint of a hot fall ahead – and that’s after a red hot summer. Figure filed a prospectus today (Monday, Aug. 18, 2025) showing revenue growth jumped in the six-month period that ended on June 30, 2025 – […]

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX) took flight today – and it didn’t need a travel agent. MIAX finished its first day of New York Stock Exchange trading at $30.74 – up $7.74 from its IPO price of $23.00 for a 33.7 percent gain – on volume of about 18.5 million shares. MIAX opened at $31.65 – up […]

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX) priced its IPO at $23.00 – $2.00 above the top of its $19.00-to-$21.00 range – and sold 15 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $345 million on Wednesday night, Aug. 13, 2025. The profitable financial exchange operator – known for its options exchange business and backed […]

Bullish (BLSH) lived up to its name at the first tick – jumping to $90.00 in its opening trade on the New York Stock Exchange shortly after 1 p.m. EDT today  – for a moonshot gain of 143.24 percent from its $37.00 IPO price. After about 90 seconds of trading and a climb to $102.44 – […]