IPOs and Secondaries

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Futurists are an odd lot.  Generally, they are authors, scientists,  consultants and economists.  What many people don’t know is that investors follow this philosophy as well.  Their goal is to...
Do we need another public casino chain?  It must be that we do not.  Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. has dropped its plan to come public “due to market conditions.”  The private equity-owned...
Government Motors is now back to being General Motors (NYSE: GM).  The taxpayer will start to recollect some of the bailout money, although shares would have to be far far higher for a full return...
GM has increased the price per share of its IPO from about $26 to nearly $33 and ratcheted up the number of shares it will offer  by 30% to 478 million shares, all in the course of two days. GM also...
Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) is raising cash.  The LP grew the size of the offering and this discount appears to be about 2%. The oil and nat-gas transporter and storage facility...
Youku.com Inc. has just filed its paperwork with the SEC to pursue an initial public offering in America via ADS share sales.  After the success of China’s IPO class of 2010, it is hard to blame...
Irrelevant CNBC has reported that GM will not allocate any shares in its IPO for customers of Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW), TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD), and E*Trade (NASDAQ: EFTC). That means retail...
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) has raised close to $1 billion.  If no over-allotment shares are exercised, this figure is closer to $970 million.  The insurer sold 18.35 million shares at...
Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI) is coming public.  The fabless provider of high-speed analog semiconductor solutions priced its initial public offering of 6.8 million shares at $12.00 per share. ...
UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK) is the newest IPO and is coming public this morning.  The company priced 19 million shares of common stock at $4.75 per share.  Prior to this offering,...
DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) has priced its public secondary offering of 2,500,000 common units at $34.96 per common unit for gross proceeds of close to $87 million. The partnership listed...
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EEP) has priced its pending public secondary offering of 5.2 million Common Units.  The deal priced at $60.12 per unit, raising more than $300 million in the...
This will not be a shock to many investors and it has been a highly telegraphed deal. Harrah’s is coming public, again.  Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. has announced that it has commenced an...
Is it ‘prime’ water or ‘cousin’ water?  Either way, so far it is hot water.  Primo Water Corporation (NASDAQ: PRMW) priced an initial public offering of 8,333,333 shares of common stock at...
The Fresh Market Inc. (NASDAQ: TFM) just became a challenger to this week’s review of the top 7 IPO’s of 2010.  The company priced its initial public offering of 13,175,000 shares of common...