IPOs and Secondaries

IPOs and Secondaries Articles

There are two financial issues in America that have been developing simultaneously: many borrowers have been locked out from the ability to access capital, and investors can no longer rely on bonds...
When it comes to the world of cellular telecom providers, Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is the weakling on the block.  Despite its release of the iPhone for Sprint from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:...
TripAdvisor is supposed to be the next spin-off IPO and it in theory has kept a phantom premium under Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) during the market carnage of the last quarter.  Today came news that...
Everyone, or most everyone, loves initial public offerings and the allure of great gains on the great growth engines of the next decade.  Sometimes things just don’t work out as well as the hype...
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EEP) is raising some fresh capital.  The partnership has priced an 8 million common unit secondary offering at $28.20 per unit in a move that will generate net...
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) might have been indicated higher on the news that it was going to be added to the S&P 500 Index, but news of yet another share sale is capping those gains.  The...
This may be a first.  Have you ever seen a company repurchase stock and then announce that it repurchased too much stock and has sold shares to get the cash back?  This is the story of LDK Solar...
Facebook had already said that it wanted to conduct its IPO in 2012 rather than 2011.  We still named it as being one of the Top 17 IPOs To Watch In 2011 because the argument of when that IPO comes...
Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering.  The long and short is that this should :filed to come public again!”  The company’s most recent...
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is seeing its stock trade a bit soft this morning on news that private equity backers are selling 25 million shares of common shares at a price to the public of...
Teavana Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TEA) has seen its quiet period come to an end today, making the analyst community that works for the companies which did the underwriting free to initiate their research...
Another private equity giant is set to come public in an initial public offering.  The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO), Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co....
So far this year we’ve noted a couple of major spin-offs in the energy section. Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) spun out its downstream business into Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) and Tesoro...
A new initial public offering being filed by a Houston-based company called Sanchez Energy Corporation may not garner much interest all on its own.  Not until investors realize that this is a...
Dynamic Offshore Resources Inc. is going to be an interesting IPO to watch.  The company is a private oil and gas company that has received financial backing from Carlyle Group and Riverstone...