IPOs and Secondaries

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Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square could soon become a much more formidable activist when it comes to dealing with companies.  Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) might have not been one of Ackman’s...
Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) is one which we were skeptical on and we warned investors that it was a value hat trick, but not just because of its business model.  This was a Wall Street trick and...
Carbonite, Inc. is closer to coming public.  The online subscription service for data storage backup for consumers and businesses has just filed its first amendment to its prospectus filing and we...
Secondaries, Secondaries, and more Secondaries!!! Companies must be nervous about the market and picking up capital when and where they can after a large move in the market.  We are seeing many...
Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) was already getting a premium price after the underwriters lifted the price range once.  Word had been out that another premium was coming after the range went from $7...
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) is currently halted after the close.  The L.P. has filed plans with the SEC fot an underwritten public secondary offering of some 6,700,000 common...
Five Star Quality Care Inc. (NYSE: FVE) is not a company that many investors know very much about.  After the move we have seen over the last year, and then the sharp reversal over the last week,...
CafePress Inc. is one of the latest dot-com players that has filed to come public.  What is interesting is that CafePress is far from an unknown internet player and it actually has a longstanding...
Mattress Firm Holding Corp., owner and franchise giant of The Mattress Firm, has filed to come public.  Yes, it is a bedding company.  The listing exchange has not been picked out but the company...
If you are reading this, chances are extremely high that you have seen the ticker tape bleeding red week after week here in the U.S. equity markets.  So what would you say if we told you that...
Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) is not only about to come public, it is really bucking the trend of the markets.  It looks like the only threat to SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is also ignoring...
Fusion-io Inc. (NYSE: FIO) might not have closed near its highs on its initial public offering debut on Thursday, but this did command a double-premium if you consider that it raised the range and...
Avaya Inc. is going to soon be public again.  After being taken private during the private equity peak it has now filed for its initial public offering.  No terms were disclosed but the offering is...
The recession pretty much killed blank check companies and special purpose acquisition companies (or SPACs).  After more than two years of an equity market recovery, we have started to see periodic...
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) still appears to be on the backside of a bubble in rare earth elements and rare earth oxides.  The company has already seen insider selling after an exponential rise in...