IPOs and Secondaries

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If you made as much money in shares of luxury apparel and accessories-maker Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) as the insiders have, chances are high that you would want to lock in at least...
AIG (NYSE: AIG) will receive the additional measure of freedom it has been seeking since the government became its majority owner in 2008.By most estimates, the federal government has staked $185...
Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) has now announced that it intends to conduct a public offering of shares of an original issuance of Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. The...
When the market is strong, companies tend to raise capital. Or insiders decide to cash in some chips. We now have a whole slew of companies conducting secondary offerings now: BreitBurn Energy...
Warner Chilcott PLC (NASDAQ: WCRX) already has pulled back way off of its old highs as the company is deemed a maturing story. Apparently the large insider-outsider backers are tiring of the story as...
Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) is about to raise some new capital, and it is doing so when shares are close to an all-time high.  The real estate information marketplace has announced that it will commence...
How many companies can issue press release showing that a secondary offering, with not a single penny ending up in the company’s coffers, will increase the free float by about 10% on an implied...
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) might be one of the safer banks in America and it may be adding assets where it can, but now its shareholders are getting clipped a little after the company...
Business software maker Workday Inc. has filed an initial Form S-1 saying it plans an initial public offering to raise up to $400 million. No date or share price is included in this filing, nor does...
Social media company Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) has been a success story since its IPO in March. The shares went out at $15 and more than doubled to near $32 before beginning a slide to around $18 today....
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) does not feel it is being dealt fairly with in the matter of losses that arose from the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) initial public offering. The bank believes that the...
Several media outlets have reported that George Soros has bought about 8% of the shares in recent IPO of Manchester United Ltd. (NYSE: MANU). Soros Fund Management LLC owns 7.9% of the soccer club,...
Based on filings with the SEC, Silicon Valley legend  Peter Thiel has sold millions of shares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) held by various of his funds, most of which carry the Founders LP fund name....
Listing shares on the NYSE may sound a bit like an initial public offering.  Today’s news is only half way there for a small gold mining capital financing player which has been public in Canada,...
Research shows that, following an initial public offering, stocks that have pleasant, easy to pronounce names outperform those with “ugly” names, says Marketwatch. Adam Alter, a professor of...