IPO

Alibaba.com is big. From a transaction volume standpoint, $240 billion big, according to Wall Street Journal sources. That’s twice the size of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and three times the size of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). From a revenue perspective, however, Alibaba’s nearly $8 billion in 2013 revenue...

Privately-owned Dropbox isn’t on the stock exchanges, yet. But with each new move, the company seems to be heading in the direction of an initial public offering. Most recently it unveiled Carousel, a product designed to store and manage your photos and videos. The app incorporates features...

In business there are few occasions more prestigious than the day a company goes public.  The initial public offering is a day of reckoning in which a company that kept itself closed to the outside world finally opens up.  But if an IPO can be analogized as the company crossing over...

U.S. stocks rose sharply after minutes from the Federal Reserve eased concerns over when the central bank would raise interest rates. The decision to let go of the 6.5 percent unemployment rate threshold for raising interest rates was finalized in early March. Additionally, the Fed's minutes...

On pace with the preceding weeks, the week of April 7 looks to launch 12 IPOs, plus the delayed Scynexis (NASDAQ: SCYX) IPO from last week. Using the IPO price ranges as a guide, this week's companies are looking to raise roughly $4.6 billion dollars. Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY-B) is the...

There were five initial public offerings on Friday alone, among the 11 IPOs this week. Let's take a look a closer look at Friday's action. What's hot? Energous (NASDAQ: WATT) is Friday's IPO winner thus far, and one of the most unusual IPOs investors have seen. The company is a developer of a...

Enterprise-focused cloud-based file-management service Box said Monday, via tweet that it was planning a $250 million IPO. A short while later, re/code said the filing had gone live. Box launched in 2005 as an academic project created by CEO Aaron Levie in his dorm room at USC. According...

According to a story first reported by The Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy is preparing for an IPO. GoDaddy, the internet domain registrar and web host, is now the largest internet domain registrar in the world. The company is owned by a consortium of private equity groups including Kohlberg...

We’re two days away from the four-month anniversary of the Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) IPO, but where is the stock now? How has it fared as a publically traded company? First, the price action. Remember November 6 when shares were priced at $26 per share—up from the original $17-$20 range? There was...

First lady, Michelle Obama is a big fan of clothing retailer, J. Crew. The company will need to pick up quite a few more supporters if it decides to go public later this year, as reported by Bloomberg. While nobody is talking on the record, including TPG spokesman Owen Blicksilver and Margot...

Swedish tech company Spotify may be preparing for an IPO. The online music streaming service advertised on LinkedIn and its own website for somebody who could help it satisfy U.S. SEC guidelines for financial reporting. According to the job advertisement, the successful candidate would be an...

On a day when the Dow is suffering another triple digit point loss, and both the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices are trading lower by more than one percent, investors and traders are hoping to find safety in the hot IPO market. Throughout 2013, the average IPO gained 17 percent on its first day...

Two recent news stories about Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continued to unfold Thursday as company shares slid up to 5.3 percent in premarket trading. Closing price Wednesday was $55.57 per share. The first story, reported by Reuters late Wednesday, was that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a number of banks...

By Bryan Wiener The most highly anticipated introduction of options trading since that of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has come and gone, including the excitement. Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) options are up and running across all exchanges, but dreams of heavy volume and of vol (volatility in option prices)...

The major indices can bank another day in the green. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 both reached new highs during Friday's trading session as markets continued its momentum following U.S. Federal Reserve's new boss Janet Yellen confirmed the central bank's economic stimulus would continue. The...