IPOs and Secondaries

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There has been an interesting trend in the globalization movement.  The U.S. has seen some major brands and major companies get acquired by foreign public companies, but suddenly U.S. investors have...
DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is surging this morning.  Last night the company announced that it has completed its $500 million equity offering to boost its balance sheet and to use against debt. ...
Direxion is at it again with triple-leverage ETFs.  If you love trading the financial stocks for triple leverage via the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) or shorting them with triple...
Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST) has priced its initial public offering of 6.25 million shares of common stock at $18.00 per share.  Of the offering, Rosetta Stone is selling 3.125 million shares of...
Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE) has joined in with other REIT operations in announcing the sale of common stock in order to pay down debt.  The company plans to sell 64 million shares of common...
Bridgepoint Education (NYSE: BPI) was a quasi-stealth initial public offering when you consider how few IPO’s we have seen over the last 8-month period.  As it was publicized less and received...
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) has priced its secondary offering this morning, and the result is that it ended up selling more stock than what it had originally planned.  The title...
eBay (EBAY) announced that it would do an IPO of its Skype internet phone business. According to eBay’s CEO John Donahoe, “Skype is a great stand-alone business with strong fundamentals and...
Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: GFON), or Gulf Onshore, Inc. (GFON), is yet another public stock company which is going after the field of legalized medical marijuana.  Just last week the company...
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is finally going to jettison its Skype VoIP service.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that this is not the separation we were looking for.  eBay is going to unload...
Sterling Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ: SBIB) has just filed with the SEC to sell up to $150 million in a mixed securities shelf filing.  The bank listed that it will sell any combination of preferred...
Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR) has joined the wave of REIT entities selling stock to raise cash.  The company priced its public secondary offering of 5 million common shares at $11.95 per share....
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) has announced the pricing of its highly anticipated secondary offering of 40,650,407 shares of its common stock.  The pricing went off at $123.00 per share...
Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ: MPEL) has just filed with the SEC to raise up to $400 million in cash.  This is via a sale of ADS’s and underwriters were not named. These terms may...
Equity One, Inc. (NYSE:EQY) joined the ranks of REITs wanting to raise cash to pay down debt.  The REIT priced 6.5 million shares of common stock at $14.30 per share.  This will bring in about...