IPOs and Secondaries

IPOs and Secondaries Articles

How many companies can announce that they are raising cash and see shares rise or even remain flat going into the pricing of the offering?  Not many, but don’t tell that to Cliffs Natural...
Bankrate, Inc. is about to be public again.  This online personal finance content maker was taken private by affiliates of Apax Partners.  The terms of the initial public offering are currently for...
Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) is getting a high valuation for its Music Genome Project ahead of its initial public offering.   What is interesting is that many investors believe that Pandora is a...
Ally Financial Inc. has filed a second amendment to its S-1 filing as a mark that its IPO is likely closer rather than farther away.  The company’s stock will be listed on the NYSE under the...
Fusion-io, Inc. is set to price its initial public offering this week.  We currently have an expected pricing on or around Wednesday.  The company’s latest amended filing shows that it will sell...
There is a game of chicken between social networks and the stock market. Each new IPO raises more questions about valuations. Those questions may bring more skepticism from investors. The big social...
Groupon, Inc. has just filed for an initial public offering.  No terms were disclosed other than that the sale is for up to $750 million in common stock.  The company plans to trade under the stock...
How does a renewable energy company’s IPO relate to possibly rekindling interest in the tiny sector of nanotechnology?  Actually, there is a deep tie now.  Solazyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: SZYM) is a...
Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) was brutalized going into its huge secondary offering where Cargill and affiliated parties were selling 100 million shares.  Right before the offering, we had noted that...
MakeMyTrip Limited (NASDAQ: MMYT) was at one point one of the best IPOs of 2010 after its August 2010 debut.  This was no reverse merger either. The stock had risen to above $40 in September as the...
Freescale Semiconductor Holdings (NYSE: FSL) is going to be a disappointing private equity technology IPO if the pricing matters.  That doesn’t mean that shares cannot rise, but the company’s...
Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAVE) has priced its Initial public offering and the shares should begin trading today.  At first look, Spirit is going to be a disappointing IPO despite this being...
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) came public and shares opened at a high enough premium that Jim Cramer called it a sham.  There was one obvious issue that came up from this, and that is “When...
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is bucking a trend.  The company has just announced a follow-on offering of 5.3 million shares of common stock.  Amazingly, the shares rallied on the news because...
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is about to see even more shares come to the market.  The company has filed with the SEC to sell up to an additional 11,500,000 shares.  The offering would amount to...