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Understanding IPOs

beebee
edited March 2014 in Off-Topic
IPOs seem to gather a lot of excitement. They seem to provide a new place for money to go. I read recently institutional investors are said to be the true driver of (IPOs) stock prices, typically receiving 70 - 80% of IPOs stock allocation (Ernst and Young, 2010).

Conversely,
"A wide range of financial sponsors are pursuing IPOs for their portfolio companies as a component of their ultimate exit strategy for these companies. We anticipate the pipeline of private equity-backed IPOs to remain robust for so long as broader market strength and stability continues to afford access and support attractive valuations,"

What's your take on IPOs?

IPOs Primer:
Factors-affecting-Initial-Public-Offering-performance

Interesting 2011 Duke Graduate Research paper:
IPO Timing Determinants

Investing in IPO etfs (IPO)

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  • scott
    I really don't have any interest in participating; I feel like if there was something that I was really interested in I could wait until after the initial pop. You have an extremely hot IPO market where every other thing seems to somehow be involved with the cloud.

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