Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Happy City Holdings Limited (HCHL), the parent company of a Hong Kong hotpot restaurant group, priced its IPO at $5.00 – the low end of its $5.00-to-$7.00 price range – and increased the deal’s size at pricing to 1.1 million shares – up from 1.0 million shares in the prospectus – to raise $5.5 million on […]

Jefferson Capital (JCAP Proposed), a Minneapolis-based company that buys consumer debt, is on the marquee as the only large deal on the IPO Calendar for the last week of June. Wall Street is watching the headlines for news of Iran’s response to the U.S. bombing of its nuclear sites over the weekend. Iran said that the […]

Caris Life Sciences (CAI) gave IPO investors something to celebrate in its NASDAQ debut. Shares of Caris Life Sciences (CAI) shot up  28.6 percent to open at $27.00 – up $6.00 from the IPO price – on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 – and ended their first day of NASDAQ trading at $28.00 – up $7.00 for a gain of […]

IPO investors in Slide Insurance Holdings (SLDE) basked in some Florida sunshine today. Shares of Slide, a Tampa, Florida-based coastal home and condo insurer, opened at $21.00 –  up $4.00 from their IPO price – at 12:01 p.m. EDT today – Wednesday, June 18, 2025 – on NASDAQ volume of about 2.42 million shares. Slide’s […]

Souffle, anyone?  Enigmatig (EGG), a Hong Kong cross-border licensing consultant, popped up to $13.34 – up $8.34 from the stock’s $5.00 IPO price – to score a moonshot in its NYSE – American Exchange (NYSE – AmEx) debut today (Wednesday, June 18, 2025). Enigmatig’s stock touched its intraday high at around 10:47 a.m. EDT today […]

  Wall Street’s SPAC IPO machine priced two more big blank check deals on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025, and raised a total of $395 million. Both SPACS were set to make their debuts today – Wednesday, June 18, 2025,  on NASDAQ. Both SPACs were priced in line with the terms in their prospectuses: – Pioneer […]

Caris Life Sciences (CAI) priced its IPO at $21.00 – $1.00 above the top of its recently increased range – and sold 23.53 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $494.12 million on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025. The price range was $19.00 to $20.00 – increased on Monday, June […]

Slide Insurance Holdings Inc. (SLDE) increased its IPO’s size by 20 percent to 24 million shares and priced the IPO at $17.00 – the high end of its $15.00-to-$17.00 range – to raise $408 million on Tuesday night, June 17, 2025. The Florida home and condo  insurer had a market cap of about $2.19 billion […]

Jyong Biotech Ltd. (MENS), a Taiwan-based biotech developing drugs to treat benign prostate hyperplasia and to prevent prostate cancer, priced its IPO at $7.50 – the low end of its range – and sold 2.7 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $20.0 million on Monday night, June 16, […]

Caris Life Sciences, Inc. (CAI Proposed), an AI TechBio precision medicine pioneer focused on cancer, increased its IPO price range to $19.00 to $20.00 – up from its initial price range of $16.00 to $18.00 – and kept the number of shares at 23.53 million shares – to raise $458.84 million, if priced at $19.50, the […]