Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

A unicorn pranced out on the IPO stage last week, kicked up its heels and scored an opening-day gain of 32.3 percent. In November, another unicorn did the same – with an opening-day gain of 45.2 percent. And as the year began, another unicorn started the 2015 parade with an opening-day pop of 65.9 percent. […]

The eyes and ears of Wall Street will be focused on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s website Monday morning, Dec. 7, to see if 2015’s IPO window closes this week or next. At present, the calendar has only one deal on tap for December. It is Atlassian (TEAM – proposed), the Australian software company, […]

NBC reported 50 million viewers watched the Thanksgiving Parade on Thursday, but that was not the case about 3-1/2 miles south of Macy’s in Herald Square. On Wall Street, nobody was watching the IPO calendar. There is nothing on tap for this week. However, a few footsteps were heard in the quiet canyons of Wall […]

Everybody expected thunder and lightning from Square’s (SQ) IPO last week and they got it, but not quite the way it came down. As it turns out, Pythagoras was on to something all those years ago. The world isn’t square. There was a lot of controversy about Square’s relationship with Starbucks, Chairman Jack Dorsey’s dual […]

Thunder and lightning are expected to roll off of this week’s calendar, but a lot can happen before the show begins. The IPO weather forecaster has identified three pending storms. They are called Square (SQ – proposed), Match Group (MTCH – proposed) and Mimecast (MIME – proposed). Two of those names are marquee quality, while […]

Square (SQ – proposed) the San Francisco-based provider of mobile payment solutions, set its IPO pricing terms to offer 27 million shares at $11 to $13 each early on Friday morning, Nov. 6, 2015. That Securities and Exchange Commission filing created pandemonium. The financial media went wild. The stock is expected to start trading on […]

November’s IPO calendar looks much like the ones from the recent past. Several are true IPOs and some are mislabeled. Nevertheless, the big question is: “Where is the IPO market?” The answer could be: Probably not too far behind the current U.S. stock market. Consider the following: In October 2015, the major U.S. stock market […]

The burning question on the side of the IPO mountain reads: “Is there life after Ferrari (RACE)?”  The short answer is “Yes,” but it is not found in this week’s calendar. That calendar lists one new face at the IPO window and two carryovers from past weeks. But more on this later. The answer to […]

This week’s calendar has seven IPOs expected to raise about $1.5 billion. The focus is on one. It is Ferrari (RACE – proposed), the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer. Here is the buzz: Monday, the books close. Tuesday, it is to be priced. Wednesday, it starts trading on The New York Stock Exchange. That pretty […]

This week’s calendar of 10 IPOs is expected to raise over $5.3 billion. That looks impressive. But looks can be deceiving. A caveat: The IPO market reaches a fork in the road Thursday morning. It is a showdown between buyers and sellers over two blockbuster offerings. Here is the background: Today’s stock market, as measured by […]