Birkenstock opening is even uglier than the shoes...
Birkenstock stock opens 11% below $46 IPO price in trading debut flop. The German sandal maker’s debut is the worst opening for a listing of $1bn or more in New York in over 2yrs, Bloomberg reports. Out of more than 300 US IPOs of that size in the past century, only 9 have fared worse, the last being AppLovin, which opened 12.5% below its IPO price in April 2021, BBG data show. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Another week, another IPO
$BIRK Birkenstock could reach a $10B valuation in its US IPO. Here's a look at how they make money. Source: App Economy Insight
Arm takes the spotlight as the largest 2023 IPO, a year that has been almost deathly quiet for I.P.O.s.
The chip designer, which is owned by SoftBank, had priced its offering at $51 a share, raising $4.87B. Source: Genuine Impact
This is not the chart of an AI or crypo
It is the chart of India BSE small & medium IPO index Source: Amit Jeswani
Here’s a look at how Arm $ARM, Instacart $CART, and Klaviyo $KVYO traded from their IPO pricing over the last week
Big opens then lots of selling. Source: Bespoke
Is the US IPO market coming back to life?
Instacart sold 22 million shares at $30 each in an initial public offering on Monday, raising $423 million in the process. The offering, which values the grocery delivery company at around $10 billion, is the second high-profile IPO in a matter of days, after British chipmaker Arm had made its trading debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange last Thursday. With Klaviyo, a marketing automation company, also planning to raise up to $550 million in its initial public offering on Tuesday, this week is a clear sign of life from the U.S. IPO market, which had dried up completely in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021. According to Dealogic data analysed by EY, IPO activity already picked up slightly in the first half of the year, as companies raised $10.1 billion in 63 initial public offerings in the U.S., compared to $4.7 billion in 51 IPOs in the first six months of 2022. With inflation looking likely to have peaked, rate hikes nearing an end and equities having rebounded from last year’s lows, the market backdrop looks more positive now that it did at any time in the past 18 months. Source: Statista
