IPOs and Secondaries

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We are still seeing many companies trying to capitalize off of raising capital or where holders are registering shares.  Companies like Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ: CPST), Labopharm, Inc....
GameFly, Inc. has filed its registration statement with the SEC which will allow the company to come public via an initial public offering.  Shares will be sold by GameFly and by certain selling...
CHINA AGRITECH, INC. (NASDAQ: CAGC) was having a great day with gains north of 7%.  But at about 3:09 PM EST we saw a filing from the company.. the S-3… the ‘selling securities filing’ that...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) is about to price a very large debt offering.  With as many European nations as we are seeing having debt downgrades or credit concerns on their...
Nuveen Investments has made an unusual filing that under normal circumstances might not matter.  But we live in a near-zero rate world now where investors are looking for more interesting ways to...
Tesla Motors, Inc. has finally filed for an initial public offering.  The maker of the electric roadster and electric sedan filed to sell up to $100 million in common stock in an IPO after the close...
The IPO market is off to a rough start so far in 2010.  We have seen very recent developments in deals on deck to price from CBOE Holdings Inc., Convio Inc., Everyday Health Inc.,...
The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: AGM), a.k.a. Farmer Mac, today raised additional capital.  The capital came via a sale in a private offering of shares of non-cumulative...
Today could be called IPO Friday.  We have four confirmed priced deals, and likely a fifth.  The IPO’s involve Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) for its Symetra Financial (NYSE: SYA),...
Oil and gas developer Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX) has commenced an offering of $650 million in Senior Subordinated Notes due in 2020. The notes will be offered under an existing shelf...
It seems that every investor cares about initial public offerings.  And everyone still seems to care about what T. Boone Pickens thinks about the price of oil and what his views are on fixing the US...
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA) is pursuing a spin-off strategy which we have seen elsewhere in the energy patch, but it is a strategy that we saw mostly in 2008.   The group...
We have already seen a flood of secondary offerings from many companies in many sectors either sold or filed this week.  The strong market is giving many companies a window to raise cash, and we are...
The end of 2009 was marked by many companies selling stock via public secondary offerings.  2010 has not seen the floodgates open wide, but the secondary offerings are coming.  We have offerings...
salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) may be closer to hitting the acquisition trail.  The company has sold $500 million in 0.75% convertible senior notes (unsecured, unsubordinated obligations) due in 2015 in...