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Stubbornly high inflation, rising interest rates and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with geopolitical tensions and concerns about the global economic outlook,...more
The IPO market produced 142 IPOs in 2017, a total that was 45% higher than the 98 IPOs in 2016 and just shy of the 152 IPOs in 2015, but still lower than the annual average of 155 IPOs over the five-year period from 2011 to...more
The IPO market cooled in November to produce only a trio of IPOs, the slowest November since the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. The first eleven months of 2016 have produced 91 IPOs—39% below the 150 IPOs over...more
The IPO market produced 19 IPOs in October, representing the highest monthly figure since the 33 IPOs in June 2015. Over the first ten months of 2016, there have been 88 IPOs—36% below the 138 IPOs over the corresponding...more
The IPO market produced 14 IPOs in September, representing the second highest monthly figure for 2016 and only one behind May’s tally of 15 IPOs. The month’s total represents the third-busiest September since 2000, trailing...more
The IPO market continued its tepid pace in August, with the month producing seven IPOs. Over the first eight months of 2016, the tally of 54 IPOs represents less than half the number of IPOs over the first eight months of...more
The IPO market produced 10 IPOs in July, bringing the total number of IPOs over the first seven months of the year to 47–56% below the 106 IPOs over the first seven months of 2015.
Gross proceeds in July were $2.69...more
June mustered only seven IPOs, down from 15 IPOs in May, and in sharp contrast to the preceding two years—in both 2014 and 2015, June produced the highest monthly IPO count of the year, with 30 and 33 IPOs, respectively. The...more
The IPO market in May produced 15 IPOs, doubling the count for the first five months of 2016 to 30 IPOs. Gross proceeds for the month were $3.56 billion, buoyed by a pair of billion-dollar IPOs, the first such sized offerings...more
The IPO market produced seven IPOs with gross proceeds of $1.22 billion in April, for the best monthly performance of 2016 as the IPO market slowly pulls itself out of the slumber that has persisted since mid-2015....more
The first quarter of 2016 produced a meager eight IPOs with gross proceeds of $667 million. Only once over the prior 12 years has the first quarter produced a lower tally—there were only two new offerings in the glum...more
Once again proving that you can’t judge a gift by its box, emerging growth companies (EGCs) received a pleasant, but oddly wrapped, surprise in December with the enactment of a new law authorizing spending on highway and...more
The 2015 IPO market produced 152 IPOs, a disappointing tally that lagged well behind the 244 IPOs in 2014 despite continued strength in the life sciences sector. Setting aside the anomalous years of 2008 and 2009, however,...more
2/4/2016
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Technology Sector ,
Venture Capital
The December IPO market produced a pair of new offerings. Only once in the preceding 15-year period has the month of December seen a lower IPO count, as 2008 failed to produce a single IPO for the month in the midst of the...more
The November IPO market produced a dozen IPOs with gross proceeds of $1.30 billion.
The month’s tally brings the total number of IPOs over the first 11 months of 2015 to 150 with total gross proceeds of $24.63...more
The market produced 16 IPOs in October, bringing the total number of IPOs over the first 10 months of the year to 138. Gross proceeds for the month were $5.08 billion—the second highest monthly figure since September...more
The IPO market produced six IPOs in September, bringing the total number of IPOs over the first three quarters of the year to 122.
After picking up pace in June when the IPO market produced 33 IPOs, the highest monthly...more
The IPO market produced nine IPOs over the first two weeks of August, followed by a solitary IPO over the last two weeks of the month as the market entered the customary interlude around the Labor Day holiday. Total gross...more
The IPO market produced 15 IPOs in July with gross proceeds of $2.74 billion.
July’s tally brings the total number of IPOs over the first seven months of 2015 to 106, the fourth highest total for the first seven months...more
The IPO market continued to accelerate in June with the month producing 33 IPOs, the highest monthly count since the 65 IPOs in August of 2000.
June’s tally brings the total number of IPOs over the first half of the...more
The IPO market picked up pace in May, with the month producing 16 IPOs. The five-month tally of 58 IPOs is 43% below the 102 IPOs over the first five months of 2014, but nonetheless represents the fifth highest first...more
The pace of the IPO market moderated in the first two weeks of April before gaining momentum to end the month with 14 IPOs—the highest monthly tally since the 21 IPOs in November 2014, although short of the monthly average of...more
6/13/2015
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Emerging Growth Companies ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
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Securities ,
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Stock Issuance ,
Stocks ,
Venture Capital
The January IPO market produced 13 IPOs with gross proceeds of $1.24 billion, the first IPO not coming until mid-month. The last two days of January alone produced seven IPOs....more