IPOs and Secondaries
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We are seeing more and more waves of secondary offerings continue to hit the Street since the stock market has held up. Many stocks are close to near-term highs and it seems they are raising cash in...
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AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI) is being punished after the close after it announced a securities sale. The discount air carrier plans to sell $75,000,000 in convertible senior notes due in 2016...
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After the close on Monday came a little-known IPO filing from a life insurance operation called Symetra Financial Corp. It turns out that the Bellevue, Washington-based insurer has no terms for the...
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Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY) is one of the few public nanotech and micro-tech interests out there that is in a sector that is still grossly under-followed and under-covered. The...
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If any ethanol is supposed to be feasible, it is cellulosic ethanol. One player in that sub-sector is Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNMD). Unfortunately, its shares are getting crushed this morning as...
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has reviewed the ramifications of reports about General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) plans for NBC Universal. The ratings agency has said that a partial sale...
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KKR wanted to follow Blackstone (BX) into the public markets, but the recession and credit crisis ruined that dream. Blackstone’s shares were so badly beaten down that the KKR partners may be glad...
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A123 Systems Inc (NASDAQ: AONE) is still likely going to be one of the highlights of trading activity for the week, but the valuation is all based on the future rather than on the performance of the...
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Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has priced its public secondary offering of 20 million shares at a price of $16.25 per share. This is a fter a $17.07 close yesterday. Palm noted that it will have...
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You know the market is still strong when secondary floodgates open up and are so well received that so many deals are seeing increased offerings. Some of the deals we have seen this morning alone...
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The spin-off IPO for Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME) is coming next week and the company has set the expected price band for its 63+ million American Depositary Shares in range of $10.50 and...
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What happens when market rallies go on and on? Outside of the basics, you just about always get a flurry of corporations and public entities selling shares as secondary offerings flood the...
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KAR Holdings, Inc. is going to sound like a bit of a strange initial public offering if you have gotten used to the dismal US auto industry. The company has filed for an IPO of up to...
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Next week is still supposed to mark the initial public offering of what me be a very hot IPO. Auto electric-battery maker A123 Systems Inc. is tentatively set to launch and begin trading...
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For the first time in more than a year, a special purpose acquisition company, a SPAC, saw its shares broke through their trust value prior to a deal vote. In the last 12 months, blank checks...
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