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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.
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.
Schwarzman's Blackstone Group completed the first major IPO of a private equity firm in June 2007. [2] On March 22, 2007, the Blackstone Group filed with the SEC [3] to raise $4 billion in an initial public offering. On June 21, Blackstone swapped a 12.3% stake in its ownership for $4.13 billion in the largest U.S. IPO since 2002.
Assuming an investor bought one share on the first day of trading, the total investment value of the resulting 288 shares has risen to a value of over $121,500 as of the time of this writing!
The IPO market passed a big test Thursday when Arm Holdings, the semiconductor designer owned by SoftBank Group, rose nearly 25%. The deal is considered a bellwether for the health of the IPO market.
This was a year for rebuilding, said Avery Spear, Renaissance Capital senior analyst, after the IPO market took a nosedive in 2022. Although 2023 didn’t yield the full recovery some expected, it ...
After the IPO, Zuckerberg was to retain a 22% ownership share in Facebook and was to own 57% of the voting shares. [13] The document also stated that the company was seeking to raise US$ 5 billion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in tech history and the biggest in Internet history. [14] The roadshow faced a "rough start" initially.
IPOs are not the only way new securities are issued. Publicly traded companies can issue new shares in what is called a primary issue of debt or stock, which involves the issue by a corporation of its own debt or new stock directly to buyers like pension funds, or to private investors and shareholders. [4] [5]