Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.

Everybody expected thunder and lightning from Square’s (SQ) IPO last week and they got it, but not quite the way it came down. As it turns out, Pythagoras was on to something all those years ago. The world isn’t square. There was a lot of controversy about Square’s relationship with Starbucks, Chairman Jack Dorsey’s dual […]

Thunder and lightning are expected to roll off of this week’s calendar, but a lot can happen before the show begins. The IPO weather forecaster has identified three pending storms. They are called Square (SQ – proposed), Match Group (MTCH – proposed) and Mimecast (MIME – proposed). Two of those names are marquee quality, while […]

Square (SQ – proposed) the San Francisco-based provider of mobile payment solutions, set its IPO pricing terms to offer 27 million shares at $11 to $13 each early on Friday morning, Nov. 6, 2015. That Securities and Exchange Commission filing created pandemonium. The financial media went wild. The stock is expected to start trading on […]

  Lead Manager/ # of Price Range   Dollar SCOOP New Filings (Proposed Symbol) Joint-Lead Managers Shares Low High Volume Ratings Mesoblast Limited (MESO) J.P. Morgan/ Credit Suisse 5.74 $12.10 $12.10 $69.45 n.a. Shimmick Construction (SCCI) FBR $100.00 n.a. Turning Point Brands (TPB) FBR $100.00 n.a. n.a. (not available)   Postponed GenSight Biologics S.A.  (GNST) […]

November’s IPO calendar looks much like the ones from the recent past. Several are true IPOs and some are mislabeled. Nevertheless, the big question is: “Where is the IPO market?” The answer could be: Probably not too far behind the current U.S. stock market. Consider the following: In October 2015, the major U.S. stock market […]

The burning question on the side of the IPO mountain reads: “Is there life after Ferrari (RACE)?”  The short answer is “Yes,” but it is not found in this week’s calendar. That calendar lists one new face at the IPO window and two carryovers from past weeks. But more on this later. The answer to […]