Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Happy Friday indeed. AMTD Digital Inc. (HKD) popped in its NYSE debut on Friday, July 15, opening at 11:02 a.m. EDT at $13.00 – up 66.7 percent from its IPO price of $7.80. The stock extended that gain to score a moonshot – up more than 100 percent at $16.98. Trading in the stock was […]

Nano Labs Ltd. (NA), the parent of a crypto-focused Chinese fabless chip maker, priced its IPO at $11.50 – near the top of its $11.35-to-$11.51 range – on 1.77 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) on Monday night, July 11, 2022. The IPO raised $20.36 million – about $130,000 more than if it had been priced […]

Asia is in focus this week. A strong connection to Asia is the common thread linking three of the seven small-cap deals on the IPO Calendar for the week of July 11, 2022. China, Japan and Malaysia are in the mix. If all seven deals get done, bankers expect to raise $76.5 million. Nano Labs […]

Nano Labs Ltd. (NA proposed), the crypto-focused Chinese maker of fabless chips, slashed its IPO by 45 percent late Tuesday afternoon (July 5, 2022). Under the new terms, Nano Labs Ltd. will offer 1.77 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a price range of $11.35 to $11.51, according to an F-1/A filing dated July 5, […]

IPO bankers could not turn off their phones fast enough for the Fourth of July holiday weekend after enduring a rough ride for the first half of 2022.  No traditional IPOs from big banks are expected during this short holiday week. The U.S. stock market will be closed Monday, July 4, for the U.S. Independence […]

Ivanhoe Electric Inc. (IE) priced its IPO on Monday night (June 27, 2022) at $11.75 – the low end of its $11.75-to-$12.50 price range – and sold the full 14.39 million shares listed in the prospectus. The deal, a carryover from last week, raised $169.08 million.  Ivanhoe Electric’s stock opened flat at $11.75 in its […]

Ivanhoe Electric, Inc. (IE proposed) is now planning to go public next week. The deal was postponed on Thursday morning (June 23) without any explanation –  hours ahead of its expected pricing that night. The Canadian copper and gold mining company’s deal is the first big IPO since mid-May. BMO Capital Markets, Jefferies and J.P. […]

Three micro-cap deals got done Tuesday night to start trading today (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) – just hours ahead of the Fed’s expected rate hike this afternoon. Two of these three deals were small-cap IPOs. The other one was a public offering in connection with a NASDAQ uplisting from the OTCQB. All three were downsized […]

June IPO traffic is stalling for time as the S&P 500 began the week by falling into bear market territory. No traditional IPOs are on tap for pricing during the week of June 13, 2022. Just two tiny deals, including a unit offering, are on the IPO Calendar. And those deals may get pushed back, […]

Electric school bus and van maker Phoenix Motor Inc. (PEV) hit a wall today (Wednesday, June 8, 2022) in its NASDAQ debut. Phoenix Motor’s stock fell $1 from its $7.50 IPO price to open at $6.50 at 10:22 a.m. EDT on volume of 281,727 shares, NASDAQ records showed. That opening trade marked Phoenix Motor’s IPO […]