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A red herring prospectus, as a first or preliminary prospectus, is a document submitted by a company (issuer) as part of a public offering of securities (either stocks or bonds).
Author: pwei: Short title: Library of Congress Classification Outline; Date and time of digitizing: 16:07, 12 March 2003: File change date and time: 13:31, 22 November 2010
A public offering is the offering of securities of a company or a similar corporation to the public. Generally, the securities are to be publicly listed. In most jurisdictions, a public offering requires the issuing company to publish a prospectus detailing the terms and rights attached to the offered security, as well as information on the company itself and its finances.
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors [1] and usually also to retail (individual) investors. [2] An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.
Some 108 companies conducted their IPO in 2023 and raised $19.4 billion, according to Renaissance Capital. Those figures rose markedly from the 2022 doldrums of 71 IPOs and just $7.7 billion raised.
Regulation S-K is a prescribed regulation under the US Securities Act of 1933 that lays out reporting requirements for various SEC filings used by public companies. Companies are also often called issuers (issuing or contemplating issuing shares), filers (entities that must file reports with the SEC) or registrants (entities that must register (usually shares) with the SEC).
The best-known example is The Walt Disney Company, which issued a tracking stock for go.com. At around the same time the bubble ended, Disney retired the tracking stock. AT&T (AWE) and Sprint Corporation (PCS) also established tracking stocks for their cellular telephone operations, but neither of these tracking stocks is still outstanding.
"IPO market and M&A, we are very bullish for 2025; we think it does come back," Madhu Namburi, head of technology investment banking at JPMorgan told Bloomberg last week. There's investor demand ...