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IPO’s Expected for Week of June 29, 2009
29 June 2009Well, it looks if we have one IPO that may open. It is LOGM - LogMeIn, which is looking to price 6.7M shares with an initial range of $14-16. Lead underwriters are JP Morgan and Barclays Capital.
IVR - Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. IPO Opens for Trading
26 June 2009Today (6/26/09) priced 8.5M shares, revised down from 20.0M, at $20. Its shares opened at $19.80 and closed at $19.42. Lead underwriters were Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. Invesco Mortgage is an REIT focused on investing in, financing and managing residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and mortgage loans.
MDSO - Medidata Solutions, Inc. IPO Opens for Trading
25 June 2009Today (6/25/09) MDSO - Medidata Solutions, Inc. IPO opened for trading. There were 6.3M shares offered at an initial range of $11-13 and then got priced at $14. It’s shares then opened at $17.50 and finished the day at $17.oo. Lead underwriters were Citigroup and Credit Suisse. Medidata Solutions is a global provider of hosted clinical development solutions.
CPC - Chemspec Intl Prices Wednesday, June 24, 2009
24 June 2009CPC - Chemspec Intl priced 8.09 M at $9 (top of initial $7-9 range). Lead underwriters were Citigroup and Credit Suisse. Chemspec is a China-based contract manufacturer of highly engineered specialty chemicals
IPO’s Expected for Week of 6/22/09
23 June 2009Looks like ther may be as many as four IPO’s this week alone. They would be DGN - Duoyuan Global Water, MDSO - Medidata Solutions, CPC - Chemspec Intl and IVR - Invesco Mortgage Capital. I’ll get more info on these later.
ACAP - American Phyisicians Capital Announces Stock Split
23 June 2009ACAP announced a 4:3 stock split today, payable 7/31/09. Its up $0.25 in afterhours and will probably pop a bit tomorrow, Personally I think the markets will pop a bit tomorrow, so announcing a stiock split should help it along too.
CYS - Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. IPO Opens for Trading
15 June 2009Last Friday we had an IPO price and trade. It was CYS - Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. and it priced 9.1M shares (revised up from 8.5M) at $11 and opened at $12. It’s initial range was $11-13, so it price at the low end of the range. Lead Underwriter was Barclays Capital. Cypress Sharpridge invests across multiple asset classes with a current focus on agency residential mortgage-backed securities and subordinated tranches of asset-backed securities, including collateralized debt obligations.
IPO’s Expected for Week of June 1, 2009
1 June 2009This week (not that they happen every week you know) we have GOV - Government Properties Income out to sell 10.0 M shares with an initial range of $20-22. Lead Underwriters are Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Wachovia.
Government Properties Income is a real estate company formed to invest in properties that are majority leased to government tenants.
OpenTable, Inc. IPO’d Today
21 May 2009OPEN - OpenTable, Inc. went public today and did very well. SWI - SolarWInds, Inc. IPO’s the other day and did well also. They both made the watch list too.
IPO’s Expected for Week of May 18, 2009
19 May 2009Okay, we have two possible IPO’s this week.
The first is SWI - Solarwinds, with a 12.12 M share offering at an initial range of $9.50-11.50. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley are the lead underwriters of this leading provider of enterprise-class network management.
Next up is OPEN - Opentable, Inc. with 3.0M shares offered at an initial $12-14 range which has since been revised up to $16-18. Lead underwriter is Merrill Lynch. Opentable, Inc. is a leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants and also runs the website opentable.com.
