The Motel 6 of IPOs?
Barron's Online
HYATT HOTELS IS EXPECTED to go public this week, and value investors should look at the deal. The asset-rich global hotel owner and operator has a great balance sheet and is likely to come to market at a discount to its tangible book value ...
Sands, Minsheng seek combined $7.35 bln in Hong Kong
Reuters
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Las Vegas casino company and a Chinese bank have set the price range for their upcoming Hong Kong stock offerings, hoping to raise up to $7.35 billion combined in what would be the world's fourth- and fifth-largest I...
IPOs Offer a Mixed Bag of Results
Seekingalpha.com
The market melt-down caused a significant decline in the number of IPO transactions over the past two years. While a typical year used to include more than 200 major offerings, there were less than 50 such offerings in 2008 and so far I cou...
Buying Facebook Before It IPOs
Seekingalpha.com
Technology stocks have done well this year. The Technology Select Sector SPDR ( XLK ) bottomed out in March and by late October was up more than 60%. Tech has performed better than any other sector year-to-date – up 33.7% as of Friday’s clo...
IPOs chugging along despite skeptics
BusinessWeek
Amidst all the excitement over the $2 billion Och-Ziff Capital Management IPO filing, the good folks over at Renaissance Capital’s IPOhome.com , who track initial public offerings while managing the IPO Plus Fund (Symbol:IPOSX), have posted...
Three IPOs in Saudi Arabia and one in Syria raised a total of US$871 ...
Zawya.com
Dubai 02 November 2009: The initial public offering (IPO) market in the Middle East has declined according to the figures in the Ernst & Young Middle East IPO Update for the third quarter (Q3) of 2009. A total of four companies listed in th...
Report: More firms line up for IPOs
MSN Money
Despite continued volatility in financial markets, more companies are looking to cash in with initial public offerings. During the third quarter, 30 companies filed new IPO registrations while 14 companies went public, according to a Nov. 3...
Aviv Pulls Sale as IPOs Unravel Amid Worst Returns (Update1)
Bloomberg
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Aviv REIT Inc. postponed its $315 million initial public offering today, becoming the second U.S. company in a less than week to pull its share sale. The real-estate investment trust that operates nursing homes in 21 U...
Another Way VCs Are Cashing Out Beyond IPOs And M&A
All Things Digital
Motley Fool Holdings Inc. this week announced it raised $25 million in venture financing. Good for The Fool. But pulling back the curtain, there’s more than just a simple round of financing here. The deal points to creative ways in which ve...
Expensive IPOs failed due to overpricing
Economic Times
Initial public offerings are back, so are investors who have not learnt their lessons. There is nothing more disturbing for an investor than missing out on potentially high returns IPO, which can be flipped in a few weeks. Some have made mi...
Ancestry.com Hopes to Raise $100 Million in IPO
ABC News
With more than a million paying subscribers, little competition, a small debt load and a record of increasing revenues, it may fare better than other IPOs that have recently priced below their filing ranges. The Provo, Utah-based company, w...
China Merchants Securities to launch IPO this week
Reuters
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Merchants Securities Co won regulatory approval for an initial public offering in Shanghai that could fetch $2 billion, setting off a return of big IPOs to the mainland stock market after share prices stabilized. ...
Two IPOs to Test Demand
Wall Street Journal
HONG KONG -- China Minsheng Banking Corp. and Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Macau unit received regulatory approvals for their massive Hong Kong initial public offerings, in what will be a test of investor appetite for even more new listings in o...
IPOs Unravel as Aviv Shelves Share Sale Amid Record Low Returns
Bloomberg
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Aviv REIT Inc. became the second company in less than a week to postpone its U.S. initial public offering as the busiest period for new listings in two years leaves investors with the worst returns on record. The real-...
