IPOs and Secondaries

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In the midst of the one of the worst car sales environments in US history, GM has announced details of its IPO. If the company were not the leading auto company in the world’s largest car...
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is supposed to be a toxic mortgage winner in the land of Real Estate Investment Trusts.  The REIT is also a serial capital raising entity, which keeps...
There are still many companies waiting to come public via initial public offerings in 2010 with just under 2 full months until the end of the year.  We wanted to review some of the top performers of...
BankUnited Inc. was one of the first public bank casualties in the financial meltdown.  Filings last week show that the turnaround acquisition is coming public again, and the filing was for up to...
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is one step closer to being out of debt with Uncle Sam and the U.S. taxpayers.  Two recent transaction have AIG now with about $37 billion raised that...
Last week private equity firms Apollo Management LP and TPG filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the gaming firm the two firms...
AIG is paying back more money to Uncle Sam.  American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has raised a large sum via its AIA Group Ltd. initial public offering in Hong Kong.  The Asian insurance...
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is one of 2010’s top performing initial public offerings.  Usually, newly-IPO companies issuing debt or even selling shares after a recent successful IPO is a sign that...
Tower International, Inc. (NYSE: TOWR) is about to be public.  The former Tower Automotive supplies welded assemblies, body structure stampings, frames, and other auto structures.  Tower has also...
Some management teams know how to work the system better and to take advantage of opportunity in the land of junk bonds better than others.  Take a look at the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI)...
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) has been under pressure this morning on news that Kirk Kerkorian and the company were selling shares in a secondary offering.  The secondary offering priced,...
SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) is getting on the debt refinance game.  The company’s XM Satellite Radio subsidiary is offering up to $550 million of senior notes that will mature in 2018 via a...
Crude oil has been on fire and prices were as low as $74 per barrel less than 3 weeks ago before recent highs  of $84.00.  Generally a rise in the commodity price garners a rise in the price of the...
2010 has turned out to have some great winners so far.  Sure there are some losers, and some big losers.  But there are many winners.  Some of the top IPOs we wanted to review are MakeMyTrip Ltd...
The end-game reward on how much MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) will add for shareholder value via a Hong Kong IPO of its MGM China Holdings Limited in Macau is still a work in progress.  It...