Questions tagged [ipo]
For personal finance questions related to a company's Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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How can I know if some of the money in my bank account is blocked and not available for withdrawal?
I am a resident of India and have a savings account opened with HDFC bank. Recently I applied for an IPO for which INR 14K were blocked from my account. The IPO was not allotted to me and hence the ...
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How can a single unit of a business be worth more than its entire market cap?
As of today, June 26th 2019, Thyssenkrupp AG has a market cap of approximately 7.3 billion euros.
On May 10th 2019, Thyssenkrupp AG announced that it will take its elevator business public in an IPO. ...
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Why do companies need to file form 8A?
I currently follow a company (DTST) in progress to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (previously traded on the OTC).
After filling the S1 report with multiple amendments, they also recently filed ...
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What are the differences between IPO and Direct Listing, esp for employees?
If a pre-IPO company is evaluating whether they should go IPO or Direct Listing, how would either option affect employees? Let's say the employees have some combination of NSO, ISO, RSU.
IPO may be a ...
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What percent of first post-IPO earnings reports are disappointing?
It seems like every time a company has its IPO, the next earnings report fails to meet expectations and the stock price plummets. Shouldn't expectations be lower considering the frequency at which ...
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Received stock in trade for LLC units as part of an IPO. How to report paper gain?
USA taxpayer.
An LLC in which I had units IPOed. I chose to have some of the units converted into stock instead of receiving cash. (Yeah, didn't expect tech implosion, but that doesn't matter for this....
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Are IPO lockup shares counted when calculating eps?
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Company XYZ has an IPO on January 1st
They offer 10 million shares
90 million shares are still held by insiders
The lockup lasts until June 1st
They report earnings of $100m for Q1 on ...
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How can charges against company surplus be used to reduce a goodwill account?
I am presently reading the second edition of Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham. In chapter 29, "The Dividend Factor in Common-Stock Analysis", to illustrate the relationship between ...
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What are the different kinds of IPOs?
I recently tried to witness an Initial Public Offering on a trading platform. What struck me is that it seemed to be different according to who the investors were. Indeed, at the time some newspaper ...
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Minimum hold period for initial investors in IPO
Back in 2020 I had some stocks that used to be SPACs and watched their value plummet over a span of a few days as the initial investors were allowed to sell, because their initial required holding ...
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