Author Archives: John E. Fitzgibbon Jr.
The IPO Buzz: 2020 IPO Show Starts On Time
The 2020 IPO market is opening right on time, if recent history is a guide. Five deals are on the IPO Calendar for the week of Jan. 13, 2020, and four are from China; more on this in a minute. Listed below are the pricing dates for the year’s first IPO, going back over the […]
January 12, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending Jan. 10, 2020
IPO Traffic: Week Ending Jan. 3, 2020
The IPO Buzz: 2019 in the Rear-View Mirror
This time last year, the outlook was bright for 2019’s IPO market. The word coming from Silicon Valley was that a number of unicorns were getting ready to prance down the street. (No IPOs are set for January 2020’s first week; more on that later.) A unicorn is a privately owned company with a valuation […]
January 5, 2020 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending Dec. 27, 2019
The IPO Buzz: 2019’s Unlikely Year-End Moonshot
The IPO market closed out 2019 last week with an unexpected opening-day moonshot. That was like a glass of complimentary Champagne just before the blank IPO Calendar for this holiday week, which includes Hanukkah and Christmas. The year-end moonshot came out of the blue last Thursday when Monopar Therapeutics (MNPR) scored an opening-day gain of […]
December 22, 2019 Read MoreIPO Traffic: Week Ending Dec. 20, 2019
The IPO Buzz: 2019’s Quiet Finale
This week may be the finale for the 2019 IPO market. The IPO Calendar has two small-cap deals this week. After that, there is nothing scheduled for the week of Hanukkah and Christmas and the week that follows. But not to worry; the IPO market is merely following history. Let’s take a look at the […]
December 15, 2019 Read More