Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

Traditionally speaking, the only thing on the IPO Calendar is the Thanksgiving turkey. This week is much the same. The current calendar shows two small-cap deals of about $25 million each, one on a day-to-day basis and the other scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday pricing. There’s also a handful of small-cap IPOs that are carryovers […]

Two IPOs wiggled into last week’s market to open November 2018. And this week’s IPO Calendar has as many as 11 deals expecting to raise about $800 million. But don’t get carried away. In dissecting the calendar, it looks as if three are carryovers from previous weeks, while two deals are by companies whose underlying […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, CNFinance Holdings (CNF proposed), a major provider of home equity loans in China, filed an amendment to its IPO prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It was noteworthy. The company changed underwriters, announced pricing terms and disclosed that non-insider investors were looking to buy into the IPO. Most […]

Most investors will remember late October for the stock market’s sharp selloff last week, but there was a silver lining tucked inside some of those clouds of gloom. There was a change in the wordage of a few final prospectuses. Before getting into that, let’s take a quick look at what happened at the corner […]

When the IPO Calendar wakes up on the wrong side of Wall Street and everybody is smiling, something went right. The eight IPOs priced last week closed Friday with an average gain of 15.15 percent, while the major U.S. stock market indexes were mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week with a gain […]

Wall Street is planning on offering an ambitious IPO calendar in the wake of last week’s sharp stock market selloff. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 3.74 percent. Bankers plan to price 10 deals looking to raise $1.87 billion, but investors’ interest is said to have backed off a little due to market conditions. The Nasdaq […]

The road to the IPO market always runs through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s filing window. Last week was a classic example. Between Monday morning, Oct. 1, 2018, and Friday afternoon, Oct. 5, the SEC filing window booked 11 companies planning to offer their IPOs. Those 11 were looking to raise $1.95 billion. Another […]

October 2018’s IPO market kicks off with six deals looking to raise $783.49 million. That’s not a bad October opening. If every week of October keeps up that pace, then this month would turn out about 25 IPOs. That’s an “above average” performance for October, based on records going back 17 years. Let’s take a […]

September’s IPO market is going out with a bang. The calendar has 13 new issues looking to raise over $1.1 billion this week.  If everything gets out the door, that will increase September 2018’s traffic to 26 IPOs. That will be the busiest September since 1999 when 43 IPOs were priced, according to the U.S. […]

The IPO market ended with a flop, a pop and a moonshot last week. This week features an IPO traffic jam: Six IPOs are set for pricing on Thursday night to raise almost $3.1 billion. The observance of Yom Kippur from sundown Tuesday through Wednesday evening all but closes Wall Street down. Worth noting: Three […]