Author Archives: Jan Paschal

Bankers expect to raise nearly $4.5 billion with six IPOs this week – making this the biggest week, in terms of dollar volume, since early May 2019, IPOScoop records show. Two of the star attractions are a unicorn – namely nCino, a cloud banking software provider – and a unicorn hunter – Pershing Square Tontine […]

July started with some IPO fireworks before the Independence Day holiday. One IPO scored a moonshot. But the story behind the news was at the SEC’s filing window, where the line looked like cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic headed for the Jersey Shore. Just two deals are on this week’s IPO Calendar. (We’ll get to those […]

DoubleDown Interactive is the name on many IPO investors’ “most wanted” list for this four-day week. The U.S. stock market will take a holiday on Friday – a day ahead of the Fourth of July. Five IPOs are scheduled, with bankers expecting to raise about $2.66 billion. More companies are likely to land on the […]

Just three deals are on this week’s IPO Calendar – and one is a household name that hungry investors have anticipated for awhile. Albertsons Companies (ACI proposed) is a major U.S. supermarket chain, set to go public late in the week in a deal that could raise $1.25 billion. The other two names on this […]

The NASDAQ Composite Index surged 6.1 percent last week to close at 8,650.14, joining the Dow and the S&P 500 in bull market territory. All this blows some wind into Wall Street’s sails – and there is an IPO on the calendar this week. There’s also a stockholders’ vote this week on the DraftKings deal, […]

Spring is off to a rocky start on Wall Street with no end in sight yet to the roller-coaster ride. U.S. stock futures started trading limit down on Sunday night after the Senate failed to approve a stimulus package worth more than $1 trillion to help the economy weather the coronavirus pandemic. The steep slide […]

The IPO Buzz will not be published today. IPOScoop is taking a brief break as the December holidays wind down. We will resume publishing the column after New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2020. Only one IPO was scheduled to start trading this week: Molecular Data (MKD proposed), a Shanghai-based chemicals e-commerce platform, said Monday that […]

The first week of November features a $2.4 billion IPO Calendar, with one deal – GFL Environmental – accounting for most of that volume. GFL, the Canadian trash and recycling giant, aims to raise $1.9 billion. It’s among 10 IPOs on tap this week. Health care is the dominant sector this week. Five of the […]

Just three IPOs are on the calendar this week, when Halloween falls on Thursday.  That’s a wrap as well for October.  A cannabis SPAC, a biotech and an online platform for Chinese real estate agents are in this week’s IPO mix. Bankers expect these three deals to raise $283 million, based on the midpoint of […]

A fertility benefits management company is among eight deals on this week’s IPO Calendar. Bankers expect to raise $830.5 million. Progyny (PGNY proposed) manages fertility benefits for some of the country’s most prominent employers, its prospectus says. Some would say that Progyny’s IPO is a sign of the times. More employers are offering insurance coverage […]