Author Archives: Jan Paschal

Phoenix Education Partners (PXED), the private equity-backed parent of the University of Phoenix, an online college, priced its IPO at $32.00 – the mid-point of its range – and sold 4.25 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $136 million on Wednesday night, Oct. 8, 2025. At pricing, the company had a […]

Alliance Laundry Holdings (ALH) upsized its IPO at pricing and priced the deal at $22.00 – the top of its $19.00-to-$22.00 range – to raise $826.3 million on Wednesday night, Oct. 8, 2025. The number of shares was increased at pricing to 37.6 million shares – up from 34.2 million shares in the prospectus. At pricing, […]

PomDoctor Limited (POM), based in Guangzhou, China, priced its small IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$6.00 range – and sold 5 million shares to raise $20 million on Tuesday night, Oct. 7, 2025. PomDoctor’s stock is expected to start trading today – Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 – on the NASDAQ. Joseph […]

Do your laundry, do your homework. Alliance Laundry Holdings (ALH Proposed), the parent company behind Speed Queen and other brands of commercial washers and dryers, and Phoenix Education Partners (PXED Proposed), the company that owns the online University of Phoenix, are on the IPO marquee for the first full week of October. It’s an abbreviated […]

Range Capital Acquisition Corp. II (RNGTU) priced its SPAC IPO – 20 million units at $10.00 each – and raised $200 million tonight (Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025). This is the first SPAC IPO priced this October. It is, however, the third SPAC to start trading in this brand new month. (The other two SPAC IPOs […]

Commercial Bancgroup, Inc. (CBK), a Tennessee-based community bank holding company, upsized its IPO at pricing and priced the deal at $24.00 – below the $25.75-to-$27.75 range in the prospectus – to raise about $172.08 million on Wednesday night, Oct. 1, 2025. The IPO’s size was increased at pricing to about 7.17 million shares – up […]

Fermi Inc. (FRMI) priced its  IPO at $21 – above the mid-point of its $18.00-to-$22.00 range – and sold 32.5 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $682.5 million on Tuesday night, Sept. 30, 2025. At pricing, Fermi had a market cap of about $12.5 billion. Fermi’s stock shot […]

Neptune Insurance Holdings (NP) priced its IPO at $20.00 – the top of its $18.00-to-$20.00 range – and sold 18.42 million shares – to raise $368.42 million on Tuesday night, Sept. 30, 2025. At pricing, Neptune had a market cap of about $2.76 billion. Neptune’s stock jumped in its New York Stock Exchange debut – opening at […]

Betsy, Bain and StoneBridge: It’s not a folk rock group. It’s a quick way to sum up the three SPAC IPOs that are set to start trading today – Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 – to wrap up the month of September. Together, these three SPAC IPOs raised $670 million on Monday night, Sept. 29, 2025. […]

Fermi (FRMI Proposed), an Amarillo, Texas-based AI and energy start-up organized as a REIT, upsized its IPO to 32.5 million shares – up from 25 million shares originally – and kept the price range at $18.00 to $22.00 – to raise $650 million, if priced at the $20.00 mid-point of its range, according to an […]