Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

The word running around Wall Street last week was look for a big June IPO calendar. Judging from last’s week traffic featuring three small-cap deals and this week’s playbill of just two offerings, it was hard to imagine. But there is more to the market than the current IPO calendar. The recent flurry of activity […]

There are no new deals on the IPO calendar this week, when the U.S. stock market will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day. The IPO Buzz will not be published today. The IPOScoop.com staff is observing a long holiday weekend break, in sync with most on Wall Street. We will resume publishing later this […]

Two IPOs attracting attention this week are in the money game – EVO Payments, a global payment processor, and GreenSky, a digital lending platform. Those names are among eight deals aiming to raise over $1.26 billion on this week’s IPO calendar. That’s about normal for today’s IPO traffic. The U.S. capital markets closed on Friday, […]

Wall Street bankers raised $3.13 billion in the IPO market last week. This week the numbers melt down to $727.7 million, but there is a reason. Last week’s high-profile deal clocked in with a disappointing $2.75 billion. AXA Equitable Holdings (EQH) had originally filed to price 137.25 million shares at $24 to $27 each to […]

When AXA Equitable Holdings (EQH proposed) filed to price its $3.5 billion IPO on April 26, 2018, a lot of eyes snapped open. That was a giant IPO. The pricing date was set for Wednesday evening, May 9, to trade on Thursday morning. In time, other IPOs joined AXA’s name on the calendar for the […]

The merry month of May arrives this week with a calendar of 11 IPOs expecting to raise $4.4 billion. Nine are on tap for this week, aiming to raise $780 million, and two are set for the following week, planning to raise $3.6 billion. The IPO calendar for May 2018 is on track to blow […]

The tech sector didn’t blink even after the major U.S. stock indexes took a couple of hits to wrap up last week. Despite this slide, the IPO calendar added up to six new names for the final week of April. Four of those six names are from the technology sector and, depending upon “market conditions,” […]

Two of this week’s nine IPOs have attracted some investors’ interest. One company is a spinoff providing a platform to streamline cloud software development and the other is developing next-generation cancer therapies to boost patients’ immune systems. All you need to know can be found in their prospectuses. For that matter, if you read the […]

Spotify Technology S.A. (SPOT) came to town last week with all the fanfare of an old-fashioned three-ring circus. The financial press loved the deal, proclaiming it a huge success and hinting that many other unicorns were lining up for direct public offerings. The press may have gotten it wrong. No one quoted the buyers. When […]

With the IPO market’s first quarter already swept into the history books, all eyes are on the big name on the marquee for the first week of April: Spotify Technology S.A. (SPOT proposed). This is the only offering on this week’s calendar – and it isn’t an IPO. This is a direct listing. Note: The company, […]