This week could very well be the final show for the 2018 IPO market. Historical data show the IPO Calendar usually closes down by mid-December, and this year, that would fall on Friday, Dec. 14. Wall Street’s bankers are signaling that this year looks like it will follow this trend. After Friday, the IPO Calendar […]
December 9, 2018 Read MoreDecember’s IPO Train is pulling into the Wall Street Depot on time this year. This week’s IPO Calendar now lists six deals expected to raise slightly over $1 billion, but more on that in a minute. A check of recent IPO traffic confirms the story. For the month of December alone in 2013 through 2017, […]
December 2, 2018 Read MoreInterestingly enough, three small-cap IPOs wiggled their way into last week’s market, while one was postponed, and that pretty much swept the calendar clean. The IPO traffic resembled a light flurry of snow just a couple of days before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For the record, the “IPOs” were: Taiwan Liposome (TLC), a biopharmaceutical company […]
November 25, 2018 Read MoreTraditionally speaking, the only thing on the IPO Calendar is the Thanksgiving turkey. This week is much the same. The current calendar shows two small-cap deals of about $25 million each, one on a day-to-day basis and the other scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday pricing. There’s also a handful of small-cap IPOs that are carryovers […]
November 18, 2018 Read MoreTwo IPOs wiggled into last week’s market to open November 2018. And this week’s IPO Calendar has as many as 11 deals expecting to raise about $800 million. But don’t get carried away. In dissecting the calendar, it looks as if three are carryovers from previous weeks, while two deals are by companies whose underlying […]
November 11, 2018 Read More