BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: IPO
- initial public offering
Wiktionary Definition for: IPO
- Initial Public Offering
Additional Resources
- KKR's Dollar General Files For $750 Million IPO
- By Megan Davies and Phil Wahba NEW YORK (Reuters) - Discount retailer Dollar General Corp, backed by powerful private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co KKR, filed for an initial public offering of up to $750 million on Thursday, according to a regulatory filing. It could be one of...
- News items 2009-08-20
- As Predicted, VMware will IPO in 2007
- In October, 2006, I wrote the article, "VMware as LBO Opportunity for EMC?" The article examined the impact that the VMware acquisition has had on the EMC bottom line and speculated on some ways that EMC could benefit its shareholders by spinning out the EMC asset with an IPO in...
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Executive Stock Options And IPO Underpricing
- In about one-third of US IPOs between 1996 and 2000, executives received stock options with an exercise price set equal to the IPO Initial Public Offerings offer price rather than a price determined by the market. Among firms with such "IPO options", 58 percent of top executives receive a net...
- White papers 2006-07-31
- More Powerful IPO Express Service Introduced by EDGAR Online; Expanded Tools for Financial Professionals and Investors
- Business &Technology Editors NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 8, 2000--EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR) today introduced a new version of the company's IPO Express service (http://www.ipo-express.com), a resource for breaking IPO news, IPO calendars and in-depth searching of the company's vast database of 3,400+ IPO companies...
- Research articles 2000-02-08
- IPO "Crisis" Crushes Small Caps, Grant Thornton Contends
- The market for initial public offerings — particularly among small-caps — is mired in a crisis, Grant Thornton capital-markets consultants contend. The debacle has been caused largely by wrong-footed regulatory and technological moves, rather than the downturn in the economy, they say. "Over the last several years, the IPO market...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Delta Lloyd's IPO Fully Covered
- By Daisy KuLONDON (Reuters UK) - Investors have already placed enough orders to back Delta Lloyd's 1.2 billion euro (1.1 billion pound) initial public offering IPO with about a week to spare, pointing to decent demand for Western Europe's biggest flotation this year.A spokeswoman for Delta Lloyd, the Dutch unit...
- News items 2009-10-27
- A Fully-Rational Liquidity-Based Theory Of IPO Underpricing And Underperformance
- The author presents a fully-rational symmetric-information model of an IPO Initial Public Offering, and a dynamic imperfectly competitive model of trading in the IPO aftermarket. The model helps to explain IPO underpricing, underperformance, and why share allocations favor large institutional investors. In the model, underwriters need to sell a fixed...
- White papers 2006-02-21
- IPO Failure Risk: Determinants And Pricing Consequences
- While a large body of research examines different aspects of the post-IPO Initial Public Offering stock return performance of new listings, little has been documented regarding the firm-specific characteristics that are associated with IPO failures. The authors contribute to the IPO literature by developing an IPO failure prediction model that...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- SSA Global files IPO.(Views from the front)
- Enterprise suite vendor SSA Global wasn't about to discuss the company's June 4 filing for an initial public offering IPO--given that Salesforce.com had to delay its IPO after CEO Marc Benioff talked to the press during its IPO "quiet ... Enterprise suite vendor SSA...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- IPO Express Calendar For Jan 31
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 31, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol...
- Research articles 2000-01-31
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 01
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 1, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-01
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 02
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 2, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol...
- Research articles 2000-02-02
- IPO Express Calendar for Feb 03
- SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 3, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and lead underwriter. ...
- Research articles 2000-02-03
- IPO Express Calendar for Feb 04
- SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 4, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and lead underwriter. ...
- Research articles 2000-02-04
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 07
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 7, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- IPO EXPRESS CALENDAR FOR Feb 08
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 8, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-08
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 09
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 9, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-09
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 10
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 10, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-10
- IPO Express Calendar For Feb 17
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 17, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-17
- IPO Express Calendar for Feb 18
- Business Editors SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 18, 2000 The following IPO Calendar has been issued by IPO Express (http://www.ipo-express.com), a service of EDGAR Online, Inc. (Nasdaq:EDGR). This calendar lists all of the expected IPO's for the next 60 days along with size, price range, proposed ticker symbol and...
- Research articles 2000-02-18

