IPOs Have Been Crushed in 2019. Why That’s Actually Good News for Stocks
Source: Barron’s
Here is By Eric Savitz:
“All of a sudden, the initial public offering market is behaving rationally…”
“There is clear data to show that IPOs aren’t always efficient mechanisms for price discovery. From 1980 to 2018, the average first-day return after an IPO was 18%, according to Ritter. That underpricing amounted to $165 billion in proceeds left on the table, Ritter calculates. Theoretically those funds could have gone to company coffers if bankers had more accurately predicted value before pricing stocks.”
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