IPOs and Secondaries

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Telsa’s IPO priced at $17, above the anticipated range of $14 to $16. The company sold 3.3 million shares and raised $226 million. The IPO was the first for a US car company since Ford Motor’s...
Gold ETFs are still getting larger.  There is a filing from the iShares COMEX Gold Trust (NYSE: IAU) that will appear excessive just because of the vast share count of up to 409,800,000 shares.  ...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) filed on Friday evening to sell up to 1,076,123 shares of common stock.  The stock is all being filed on behalf of shareholders related to the acquisition of AdMob, Inc.,...
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) is doing its holders a real disservice after announcing a proposed share sale offering last night.  The company makes high-efficiency, ultra-clean power plants...
There are more rumors that GM will have an IPO before the end of the year. The latest gossip is that the Treasury will sell 20% of its shares in the process, get taxpayers some of their investment in...
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, is delaying its monster offering.  Reports from Brazil say its huge $25 billion share sale is now expected to take place in September rather than...
Restructuring never ends in many large corporations.  After a week’s worth of reading through dozens of corporate deals in the pipeline and analyzing others which could be close, it seems that...
Motricity (NASDAQ: MOTR) is coming public this morning, but at a lower price than had been expected.  The prior $14 to $16 per share range was cut down to $10 to $11 per share and the 6.75 million...
It seems we have more secondary offerings coming back into the fold now that the markets have stabilized and recovered.  Many real estate investment trusts (REITs) raised vast sums of capital in...
Founders of companies can become worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions, when they keep large shareholdings in their companies.  The catch is that the companies have to succeed. ...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is selling $1.15 billion worth of convertible senior notes, but chances are that you won’t be able to participate in this offering even if you wanted to. The notes...
The global equity market is about to get ready to absorb one of the world’s largest securities offerings ever.  Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or the state-run ‘Petrobras,’ has hired a...
If you are a fan of initial public offerings for the actual securities exchanges out there, the CBOE IPO terms have been set and the deal is not getting much closer to pricing.  An SEC filing out...
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is signaling that it can hold its own by buying out what could have been dilution from Uncle Sam selling warrants.  The Treasury will take in net proceeds of...
In the past, securing Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) as a partner and investor would have been a score for Tesla Motors.  The reality is that it still probably is.  The problem is that Toyota...