Interactive Brokers Now Public & Open (IBKR)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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Stock Tickers: IBKR, ETFC, AMTD, SCHW

Interactive Brokers (IBKR-NASDAQ) has now opened after pricing its IPO.  The IPO came public via the OpenIPO(R) format from W.R.Hambrecht, and we already posted the bidding indications from prior bidding to give some indications of what to potentially expect for first day floors or caps.  Those are far from absolutes, but they could be used as a guide.

-The auction clearing price was $33.00.
-The offering price was $30.01.
-A total of 13,504 bids were received in the auction.
-A total of 8,282 bids were successful.
-A total of 145,514,807 shares, in total, were bid for at prices equal to or in excess of the offering price.
-The pro rata fill rate for bids was 27.5%.

Shares have now traded over 10 million shares and are up above $32.00.  The company has instantly grown in to a size that it can be compared to Ameritrade (AMTD-NASDAQ) and E-Trade (ETFC-NASDAQ), although it is still far short of Charles Schwab (SCHW-NASDAQ).  At the pricing, the company was worth roughly $12 Billion in market cap, but we’ll follow up on that with more precise numbers later.

Jon C. Ogg
May 4, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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