IPOs and Secondaries

IPOs and Secondaries Articles

Whether or not initial public offerings are performing properly in the after-market is one thing, but the game that investors are trying to win now is in securing pre-IPO shares of companies which...
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EEP) has just announced that it is raising capital.  The partnership is offering approximately 7 million of its Class-A common units.  The gross proceeds would...
Everyone wants to get a piece of Facebook.  Shares have been sold by the company and shares have been sold by employees and insiders on private market exchanges.  Now a company called GSV Capital...
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is shrinking its empire, sort of.  The company is spinning off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation holdings to its shareholders.  Sears holds...
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders had plenty of concerns even before Facebook announced that it was going to get into video delivery of selected movies.  In a SWOT analysis, the Facebook...
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was perhaps one of the largest secondary offerings out there of its sort.  The tally was close to $6 billion when it was all said and done.  We had discussed this as...
Secondary offerings matter.  They can raise capital for a company and they can help previous investors book profits.  They can also cause severe pressure on shares.  We have seen either...
Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: IVR) has two things to address today, a super-high dividend yield and a secondary offering.  This also spills over to the outlook for Annaly Capital Management,...
PetroLogistics LP has filed its paperwork with the SEC to raise $600 million in equity capital in an initial public offering.  The company will list it common shares on the  New York Stock Exchange...
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. has filed its paperwork for an initial public offering of shares of common stock.  The filing calls for as many as 39.5 million common shares to be sold with the aim of...
For about six months in 2010, Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) had the publicly traded biofuels market to itself. Then Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRS) and Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) jumped in, and in May...
Oaktree Capital Group, LLC has filed to come public in an initial public offering.  No financial terms were given but the firm did initially note a sale of up to $100 million in securities (Class A...
Imperva, Inc. has formally filed for an initial public offering.  No financial terms were disclosed other than for up to $75 million in proceeds.  This IPO will be shares sold by the company and by...
The market for initial public offerings is one which is a bit on the ropes.  Sketchy offerings from China, a soft market, and the news coming from Europe is all contributing to some caution. ...
Bankrate, Inc. (NYSE: RATE) is public again.  The company priced its 20 million share IPO at $15.00 per share.  This was right in the middle of the expected price range of $14 to $16 per share. ...