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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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Initial public offering
calendar report
Banking; Initial public offering
One of the IPOfn Money Managers/Traders Package reports that lists all IPOs and secondarys in the pipeline to be priced on an alphabetical basis by individual weeks.
cancellation
Banking; Initial public offering
When an IPO or secondary issue has difficulty getting investor interest, the company issuing the shares may be unwilling to reduce the price of the offering in order to entice investors into buying ...
change in evaluations
Banking; Initial public offering
An IPOfn daily fax report that lists all the IPOs and secondarys that are in the pipeline to be priced broken down by: 1) those issues that have had a change in ranking, 2) those being ranked for the ...
co-manager
Banking; Initial public offering
Underwriters that appear on the cover of a prospectus and help the lead manager with the distribution of the offering but do not make the final decisions.
come public
Banking; Initial public offering
The process of taking a private company (where the shares are in private hands) and converting the ownership to the public's hands (where the shares are in the hands of public investors). This is ...
common stock
Banking; Initial public offering
A unit of ownership in a public company for which the holder can vote on matters and receive dividends from the company's growth, but he or she is the last to receive assets if the company ...
