Public Offerings Go to www.ipohome.com. This is a FREE site. If you have trouble
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Public Offerings
Go to www.ipohome.com. This is a FREE site. If you have trouble accessing it, you might try from a different location. I’ve had some students have trouble in the past, but most have no trouble at all. I can access it from home, work, public library, etc. You SHOULD NOT have to subscribe or join any group to access this site.
Click on the green IPO Center link toward the bottom center of the page.
On the left side of the screen, click on the link Rankings and then Largest Global IPOs
1) List the largest IPO. Include the company name, Underwriter, Industry, and Deal Size.
Back under the Pricings link (left side), click on Recent
2) List one of the first five recent pricings shown. Include the company name, Ticker Symbol, Underwriter, IPO Price, and Return (If you are completing this project while the market is open, this figure will change as you are looking at it—just put what it says when you look the first time!)
Back under the US IPO Stats link, click on IPO Industry Breakdown
3) What is the largest industry represented in the last 12 months? What percent of the IPOs does that industry make up? What is the smallest industry represented in the last 12 months? What percent of the IPOs does that industry make up? (4 points)
Under the News & Views link, click on Breaking News
4) Share a breaking news story with me. Please don’t just copy and paste. Paraphrase the news into your own words.
Please organize your case for each section so I can easily see which part you are answering.
Explanation / Answer
1) Largest IPO
$21767
2)List one of the first five recent pricings shown:
3)
What is the largest industry represented in the last 12 months? - Healthcare
What percent of the IPOs does that industry make up? 45%
What is the smallest industry represented in the last 12 months? Communications
What percent of the IPOs does that industry make up? 1%
4) Breaking news
Swiss biotech Basilea Pharmaceutica withdraws $190 million IPO
12/9/15
Basilea Pharmaceutica, a biopharmaceutical developing treatments for fungal and bacterial infections, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering on Wednesday citing poor market conditions.
The Basel, Switzerland-based company was founded in 2000 and booked $51 million in sales for the 12 months ended June 30, 2015. It had planned to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol BSLN. Cowen & Company and Guggenheim Securities were set to be the joint bookrunners on the deal.
This kind of action is done by company to avoid backfiring of IPO. So it can enter market at the right time in later point of time to take benrfit of favourable market conditions by fetching higher prices per share.
Company Name Underwriter Industry Deal Size in US $ MM Alibaba Group Holdin Credit Suisse Technology$21767
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