Initial public offering

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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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 ...

allocation

Banking; Initial public offering

A specific amount of stock in a new issue that is given to the client from the offering.

alphabetical listing

Banking; Initial public offering

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

amendment

Banking; Initial public offering

An additional registration document that is filed by the company with the SEC that has additional information regarding the proposed offering for that company.

ask

Banking; Initial public offering

Also referred to as the offer. It represents the price at which someone is willing to sell their stock on a market order.

An underwriting that has no sponsorship by the underwriter doing the deal. The company expects to sell a certain amount of shares and the underwriter will expend their "best efforts" to do so. In the ...