News on IPOs

Summary Box: Busy week shaping up for IPOs

2010-03-19T13:00:42Z

<div id="subtitle">Summary Box: Next week could be busiest week for IPOs since November 2007</div><div><p>HOW MANY: There could be as many as seven IPOs debuting next week. If all go through, it would be the busiest week since November 2007.</p><p>WHY NOW: Companies want to go public when investors are eager to make riskier bets. After a volatile start to the year, the stock market has stabilized with eight straight days of gains.</p><p>WHAT'S HOT:...

Stabilizing stock market giving IPOs a boost

2010-03-19T13:00:37Z

<div id="subtitle">More companies line up to go public as stock market stabilizes, giving IPOs a boost</div><div><p>The IPO market is set for its busiest week in more than two years as a steadier stock market and the success of one deal is encouraging more companies to sell shares to the public.</p><p>Companies planning initial public offerings have had a rough time this year as turbulent stock markets sapped investors' appetite for risk. Wary buyers demanded ...

Scorpio Tankers increases size of expected IPO

2010-03-18T06:45:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Shipper Scorpio Tankers boosts size of expected IPO, now hopes to raise about $187.5 million</div><div><p>Shipper Scorpio Tankers Inc. on Thursday increased how much it hopes to raise from its expected initial public offering to about $187.5 million from $150 million.</p><p>The company, which is based in the Mar...

Financial Engines shares soar in trading debut

2010-03-16T14:45:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Retirement advisory firm Financial Engines shares soar in IPO debut after raising $127M</div><div><p>Shares of Financial Engines Inc. soared nearly 44 percent in their market debut Tuesday, giving the portfolio manager and advisory firm the best first-day IPO performance so far this year.</p><p>Financial Engines' first-day gain is the third-highest in the past 12 mon...

Financial Engines prices shares above expectations

2010-03-16T05:15:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Retirement plan advisory firm Financial Engines prices above expectations; raises $127.2M</div><div><p>Portfolio manager and advisory firm Financial Engines Inc. became the first company since late November to price shares of its initial public offering above expectations, raising $127.2 million late Monday.</p><p>The Pal...

Financial Engines hoping to raise $160M in IPO

2010-03-15T07:45:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Retirement plan advisory firm Financial Engines hoping to raise $160 million in IPO</div><div><p>Portfolio manager and advisory firm Financial Engines wants to raise about $106 million in its initial public offering expected this week.</p><p>Three out of four companies priced shares within expectations last week, potentially signaling the rough start for the IPO mark...

KKR files for long-awaited NYSE listing

2010-03-12T08:15:13Z

<div><p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co <KKR.UL> has filed to list $2.2 billion in shares on the New York Stock Exchange, moving forward in its long effort to bec...

Crude Carriers shares fall in trading debut

2010-03-12T07:45:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Crude Carriers shares fall in trading debut after IPO raises $256.5 million</div><div><p>Shares of Crude Carriers are falling in their market debut Friday after its initial public offering raised $256.5 million.</p><p>Crude Carriers, based in Greece, had hoped to raise as much as $270 million.</p><p>Shares are trading Friday at $18.50 per share, down 50 cents, or 2.6 percent from their ...

Crude Carriers raises $256.5 million in IPO

2010-03-12T05:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Crude Carriers raises $256.5 million in IPO; shares price at bottom of expected range</div><div><p>Crude Carriers Corp. raised $256.5 million in its initial public offering, the Greek shipping company said Thursday.</p><p>The 13.5 million shares in the offering priced at the bottom of their expected range of $19 to $21.</p><p>Crude Carriers is the second ship...

AVEO Pharmaceuticals IPO prices below expectations

2010-03-12T04:45:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Biotech AVEO Pharmaceuticals raises $81 million in IPO; shares price below expected range</div><div><p>AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s initial public offering priced below expectations, resulting in $81 million in proceeds, the biotechnology company said Friday.</p><p>AVEO, which develops cancer therapies, sold 9 million shares for $9 apiece. It had hoped to raise ...

Options exchange CBOE files for $300 million IPO

2010-03-11T12:16:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Options exchange CBOE files for $300 million IPO as it converts from member-owned organization</div><div><p>The last major private exchange left in the U.S., the Chicago Board Options Exchange, filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million Thursday.</p><p>The CBOE plans t...

Eyeblaster plans initial public offering, again

2010-03-10T13:46:36Z

<div id="subtitle">Online advertising company Eyeblaster says planning initial public offering, again</div><div><p>Online advertising company Eyeblaster Inc. is planning an initial public offering, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Wednesday, though it did not disclose an expec...

Baltic Trading IPO little changed in trading debut

2010-03-10T07:30:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Baltic Trading shares little changed in trading debut after IPO raises $228.2 million</div><div><p>Shares of Baltic Trading are little changed in their market debut Wednesday after the initial public offering raised $228.2 million.</p><p>Baltic Trading Ltd. was recently formed by drybulk shipper Baltic Trading Ltd., was formed by drybulk shipper Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says he is in no hurry to launch an initial public offering for the wildly popular social networking site.</p><p>"We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees," the Facebook co-founder told Anthera Pharmaceuticals climb in market debut after cutting price</div><div><p>Shares of drug developer Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose slightly in their market debut Monday after the company cut the price of its initial public offering.</p><p>The Hayward, Anthera Pharmaceuticals does not start trading in IPO debut as expected by market trackers</div><div><p>The lone initial public offering scheduled for this week, Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc., did not start trading Wednesday as expected by IPO market trackers.</p><p>Deutsche Bank Securities, w...

IPO market resumes with small pharma offering

2010-02-22T08:09:53Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;IPO market resumes next with 1 small offering from drug developer Anthera Pharmaceuticals&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is only one small IPO offering next week following a holiday break, underscoring the difficult environment for companies that need to raise cash in turbulent capital markets.&lt;/p&amp...

Retailer Express plans IPO of up to $200 million

2010-02-22T09:15:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Retailer Express plans initial public offering of up to $200 million; no date set yet</div><div><p>The owner of the Express retail apparel chain said Tuesday it is planning to go public.</p><p>Express Parent LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio, said in a regulatory filing that it could rai...