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Initial public offering

Referring to the process of transforming a private company into a public company by selling shares of its stock to the general public for the first time on a securities exchange.

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Initial public offering

Week due

Banking; Initial public offering

The week a security is expected to officially be price and open for trading.

Withdrawal

Banking; Initial public offering

When a company decides to not continue with its proposed offering of securities. The reasons for this can be numerous and don't always signify trouble with the proposed offering. This term in ...

Aftermarket

Banking; Initial public offering

All trading activity in an IPO or secondary subsequent to the new issue offering from the underwriters.

Aftermarket report

Banking; Initial public offering

A series of 4 IPOfn reports that keep track of all IPOs that have come public within the last 52 week. Within the reports are data fields that rank relative performance of the issues in areas ...

Calendar report

Banking; Initial public offering

One of the IPOfn Money Managers/Traders Package reports that lists all IPOs and secondarys in the pipeline to be priced on an alphabetical basis by individual weeks.

Cancellation

Banking; Initial public offering

When an IPO or secondary issue has difficulty getting investor interest, the company issuing the shares may be unwilling to reduce the price of the offering in order to entice investors into buying ...

Change in evaluations

Banking; Initial public offering

An IPOfn daily fax report that lists all the IPOs and secondarys that are in the pipeline to be priced broken down by: 1) those issues that have had a change in ranking, 2) those being ranked for the ...

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