Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

When two of the three major U.S. stock market indexes swing from all-time closing highs into the cavern of a correction in less than two weeks, the IPO calendar can dry up. But maybe not this time around. This week’s IPO calendar lists seven deals and they expect to raise $556 million. Look for yourself […]

A 665.75-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is significant, but not nearly as drastic as a 508.33-point drop from yesteryear. Today’s IPO market is waiting to see how things will play out after the Dow’s plunge on Friday. You’ll have to keep a close watch on this week’s calendar and the SEC’s filing […]

The 2018 IPO market closes out its first month on Wednesday, Jan. 31st, with 13 deals in the record books. This week’s calendar lists another eight IPOs expected to debut in February. These are good numbers – and well ahead of the averages. The median January average was seven IPOs, according to the U.S. Securities […]

This week’s IPO calendar comes to life with 11 deals expecting to raise $3.15 billion. The health-care sector represents eight of the 11 IPOs on tap – a trend that’s a blast from the past. But that’s not the only retro item on this week’s radar. Washington, D.C., is in the headlines again with the […]

The mood on Wall Street picked up last week with the word that Dropbox filed confidentially for an IPO. Dropbox, the photo and video file-sharing and storage service, generated enough light and heat in the headlines to show that January 2018 was starting off with a bang. Consider what took place. Two IPOs made it […]

January 2018 opened its first week with some eye-popping news. Spotify reportedly filed for a direct listing and bankers quietly filed pricing dates for six IPOs to raise nearly $3.1 billion. And we were only five days into the month. Spotify’s plans to go public came in the form of a confidential filing with the […]

While the major U.S stock market indexes closed out 2017 a shade off record highs, the IPO market could best be described as winding up a “recovery year.” Investment bankers turned out a total of 151 IPOs in 2017, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. That was up from 94 IPOs in […]

The curtain comes down on the 2017 IPO market this week, with five deals on the calendar. Bankers expect to raise $297 million. Then it’s whoosh! Everybody is off for the holidays. Two Chinese IPOs are looking to raise $170 million, an insurance company is expecting to raise $100 million, and two small-cap deals are […]

If you listen closely, you might hear the engine of the IPO Express gearing up for the final run of the year. This week’s calendar has three deals and next week’s roster shows just one name to close out 2017. In short, the 2017 IPO Express is running pretty much on schedule. Here are the […]

Just as the holiday windows were drawing crowds on Fifth Avenue in New York, four IPOs wiggled their way onto the IPO calendar last week to light up November’s traffic and get December’s party started. Six companies are set to go public this week. ReTo Eco-Solutions (RETO), a small-cap deal of 2.8 million shares, was […]