Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

 

This week’s calendar is full of IPOs with 11 companies set to go public. The world is lining up to take a big bite out of one of them. It is Shake Shack, a restaurant chain famous for its gourmet hamburgers. Shake Shack aficionados say the quality of the beef (no hormones, no antibiotics) makes the company’s burgers worth the wait – 30 minutes or more in a sidewalk queue in midtown Manhattan.

 

 

After filing plans to go public 10 months ago, Box (BOX – proposed), a cloud-based storage and collaboration platform provider, has a date with destiny. It is the only IPO on this week’s new-issue calendar, but it wasn’t an easy trip to market.

 

 

2014 went into the books as a good IPO year, not a record- breaking year as some have reported. Having said that, let’s go to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.

 

Over the decades, there has been one sure way to handicap an IPO’s opening-day performance. This year was a classic case.

 

 

While the elves are scrambling to pack Santa’s sleigh, bankers are getting into the holiday spirit – or spirits – far from the corner of Broad and Wall. On Friday, the final curtain dropped on the 2014 IPO calendar.

 

Two immunotherapy companies top the final weekly IPO calendar of 2014. The experts predict that both will light up the new-issue skies and close 2014 like the climax to a Fourth of July fireworks show set to Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”

 

 

Wall Street is bracing for an end-of-the-year flurry of IPOs before the window closes for 2014. This week’s calendar lists 12 IPOs, with 10 expected to trade on Thursday and Friday.

 

 

December brings us the holidays, anticipation of the New Year and a short IPO calendar. Unlike Santa’s workshop, the IPO production line shuts down around the middle of the month.

 

Over the past few years, the Thanksgiving holiday has brought the IPO calendar to nearly a standstill. This year, the turkey time warp looks pretty much the same. It’s a week with only four trading days. In reality, scores of Wall St pros will be out of the office from Wednesday onward, heading over the rivers and through the air to Grandma’s house or some more exotic destination.