Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With IPOs, there have been positive developments in recent weeks, with a few high-profile IPOs (Instacart, ARM and Klaviyo) hitting the market, suggesting a loosening up of risk capital. In short, if you are a venture capitalist or a company founder, battered by down rounds and withheld capital, the end is not in sight yet.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

New York, NY, Sept. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Proactive, provider of real-time news and video interviews on growth companies listed in the US and Canada, has covered the following companies: Idaho Champion to acquire lithium pegmatite projects in Quebec click here. Full story available on Benzinga.com.

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Valutico

JULY 15, 2022

Just over a year after its IPO via direct listing in April 2021, Coinbase shares have already received their first sell recommendation from an analyst. Although a concrete price target has not yet been given, the news agency Bloomberg quotes a fair value of $95 from its study – the current price is just under $53. Coinbase Inc.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

Inception to IPO Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and its platform was launched later that year. The Rise and Fall of Jack Dorsey In the years since its IPO, the Twitter story has developed in ways that none of its founders and very few of its investors would have predicted.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Frontier Digital Ventures Ltd (ASX:FDV) is buoyed by the news that the parent company of Pakistan's leading property marketplace, Zameen, has raised US$200 million ahead of an upcoming IPO. Sydney, Nov. Magnetite Mines (ASX:MGT) Ltd has delivered ­1.55 billion tonnes at 18.7% iron and 15.2% Click here. Click here.

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Equidam

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Venture Capital Outlook published by PitchBook Data , the expectation of a decline in venture capital invested into startups is not all bad news. The analysis predicts that, despite a slowing in total deal value and count, seed-stage company valuations and deal sizes will continue to rise, which is good news for those joining the market.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 24, 2024

Companies with good news would be incentivized to put that information out to distinguish themselves. On the other hand, companies that don’t have good news wouldn’t disclose, and everyone would know the company didn’t have a good story. IPOs are IPOs, and as Aristotle once said, “treat like cases alike.”

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Terra Uranium Ltd (ASX:T92) shares surged as much as 80% higher intra-day on its first day of trading on Thursday, following an oversubscribed initial public offer (IPO) that raised $7.5 Sydney, Sept. Click here. million at $0.20 Click here.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The acquisition is X1's third closed post-IPO acquisition after the announcement of the closing of the Tyrus LLC acquisition on August 5 th 2022, and ShiftRLE on August 10 th 2022. It is anticipated that Octane will merge into Shift to create a new destination for Rocket League fans. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct.

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ThomsonReuters

AUGUST 2, 2021

This blog post looks at special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)—shell companies created for raising capital to buy an existing, privately held firm and take it public more quickly than would be possible by going the traditional initial public offering (IPO) route, and examines the SEC’s growing focus on their filings. had completed.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Horizon Minerals Ltd (ASX:HRZ) spin-off Richmond Vanadium Technology Ltd has listed on the ASX following a successful $25 million initial public offering (IPO) that included a priority offer for HRZ shareholders. Sydney, Dec. Sydney, Dec. Click here. Click here.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 10, 2022

The acquisition is X1's second closed post IPO acquisition after the announcement of the closing of the Tyrus LLC acquisition on August 5 th 2022. The transaction is anticipated to strengthen X1's position in video game media, adding Shift's 30,000+ social media followers at twitter.com/ShiftRLE.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 18, 2022

accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer to raise up to $10 million, which will provide the company with a runway until at least the end of 2023, including three new assets acquired since IPO. Sydney, Oct. Radiopharm Theranostics Ltd (ASX:RAD) has launched a 1 for 3.55 Click here.

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Benzinga

APRIL 6, 2022

International Graphite Ltd (ASX:IG6) hit the boards today after a $10 million initial public offering (IPO) at 20 cents per share and acquisition of the Springdale Graphite Project in southern Western Australia. Click here. Click here.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 12, 2023

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Cobalt Blue Holdings Ltd ((ASX:COB, OTC: CBBHF ) is delivering strong progress in processing ore at the Broken Hill Cobalt Project (BHCP) for use in its Demonstration Plant at Broken Hill in Far West New South Wales, Australia. Sydney, Oct. Click here.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 16, 2023

That information typically comes in financial statement releases, conference calls, annual reports, and the news media. We first construct a comprehensive data set of corporate presentation slides from multiple sources including Bloomberg News and corporate websites from 2005 to 2018. These presentations are unique in two ways.

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Benzinga

MARCH 29, 2022

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Benzinga

JANUARY 15, 2023

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 19, 2022

Investor Presentations from Financial Sponsors About IPOs and Capital Issuances. IPO Prospectus. IPO Prospectus. You can find hedge fund presentations about companies they are betting on via Google searches, cross-referenced with news reports. Patria (LatAm-Focused PE Firm). Investor Presentation. Investor Presentation.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market's response to that news was to push up Twitter's stock price by almost 10%. I have always liked Amazon, as a company, and one reason for that was Jeff Bezos.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. While there were news stories about the virus for the first few weeks of 2020, they centered either on China or passengers on cruise ships that had been exposed to the virus.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. Since Instacart makes money without these adjustments, they only draw attention away from that good news.

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Equidam

JUNE 7, 2022

In our opinion, there’s a few factors at play here: Fewer deals are making the news, and fewer deals are being disclosed at all. If we look at the UK in 2021 , relatively recent data, we had 1663 funding rounds 32B raised, a lot of series A, 48 IPOs. But what is happening at seed and pre-seed? Fundraising performance in 2021.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 31, 2023

As to the first set of research questions, we found that the presence of corporate investors in various investment rounds of fintech startups is significantly and positively associated with a greater probability of successful exits of such startups, as measured by IPO or acquisition. For example, Visa Inc. and Square.

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Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Traditionally, Hong Kong was viewed as an “ IPO hub,” with firms from mainland China and other emerging markets going public there due to favorable taxes and regulations. The biggest difference is that they almost always give you a translation exercise , where you must translate a news article from Chinese to English or do the reverse.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 12, 2023

That’s not great news for this fictional company, but it is reassuring if you’re a junior banker worried about getting replaced by AI anytime soon. It probably won’t happen – and in the near term, these new tools might even improve your life.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Birkenstock IPO: A Footwear company with intangibles If you have found this discussion of intangibles abstract, I don't blame you, and I will try to remedy that by applying my intrinsic value framework to value Birkenstock, just ahead of its initial public offering. billion in the twelve months leading into the IPO, representing an 18.2%

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition to the company, the settlement resolves allegations against its officers and directors, as well as the various underwriters of the IPO and SPO, including Credit Suisse. When this news came to light, the company’s stock price plummeted to a close of $83.65 Maurice Blackburn served as lead attorneys in this action.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the graph below, we look at the this statistic across time, updated again through 2022: Source: Jay Ritter for historical and Pitchbook for recent IPO data Here again, the drop off in initial public offerings, both in number and value in 2022 has been dramatic, and if history is any guide, there will not be a quick comeback.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 31, 2022

The Commission’s 2022 budget request includes additional resources to address “an unprecedented surge in non-traditional IPOs by special purpose acquisition companies.” [1] Over the past two years, the Division of Corporation Finance staff have poured countless hours into reviewing SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 22, 2024

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, March 22, 2024 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of March 15-21, 2024 Earnings News and Over-the-Counter Markets Posted by Stefan J.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sweden-based private equity group EQT announced on Tuesday its largest-ever fundraising with €22 billion ($24 billion) in total commitments for its flagship EQT X fund. This exceeded the company’s target size of $21.6

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Benzinga

MAY 12, 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) company VinFast is going public via SPAC merger in a deal announced Friday morning. Here are the key details. The SPAC Deal: VinFast announced a SPAC merger with Black Spade Acquisition Co (NYSE: BSAQ ). The deal comes as VinFast previously filed for an initial public offering in the U.S.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 31, 2022

Convertibles do not create immediate dilution , unlike a traditional IPO or follow-on equity offering. So, issuances decline, which is bad news if you’re a trader because all convertible bonds eventually mature. Convertibles lack the same types of covenants (financial restrictions) that many other forms of debt have.

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Benzinga

APRIL 24, 2023

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ) is reportedly readying an investor roadshow to pitch shares of its consumer-healthcare spinoff business , dubbed Kenvue, as early as Monday. Kenvue plans to start meeting with prospective investors with a goal to raise over $3.5

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