IPO Calendar List 2012
- Best Up and Coming IPO's 2012
What is an IPO? IPO is short for Initial Public Offering which is another phrase for a new stock
listed on an exchange. Each month, the IPO Calendar fills up with companies wanting to go public and issue stock.
In 2012, we will see some of the best stocks come public including Facebook, BATS Trading, and the Gilt Groupe.
See additional details on these 2012 IPO's below.
IPO's offer excitement because new stocks tend
to get a pop on the first and second day of trading. Why is this you ask? When a stock IPO's, most of the
shares remain locked up for 6-12 months leaving a small amount of stock trading during IPO day. With such
little stock trading combined with high demand for an IPO, you get a buying frenzy which produces some of the biggest
gainers of the year. For example, in 2011, LinkedIn (LNKD) went public with a price of $45. The stock opened at
$80 and ran to $120 in a few hours. If you would have bought LNKD in the morning, you could have sold this stock in
the afternoon for well over $100. We also saw YOKU and DANG, the two best chinese IPO's in 2010, rally big the first
and second day of their IPO. Don't forget to take profits though. Insiders have their stock locked up during the
first 6 months of coming public. When the lock-up expiration comes due, the IPO tends to come under heavy selling pressure
with insiders selling their stock into the open stock market. If you plan to trade IPO's, always use tight stop orders
and take profits when you have them.
Through the year of 2012, I will list new IPO's under
the IPO Calendar below. Check back for IPO updates which will be starting soon!
IPO News
Qunar.com,
a majority owned travel website of Baidu.com (BIDU), plans to IPO in 2012. Qunar is a China search engine for train,
hotels, airline, and tour packages. As for the ticker symbol, I could see it being QNAR but we'll have to
see what happens in 2012. More......
IPO's 2012 - Best IPO in 2012 - Facebook
(FCBK) - Facebook will end up being the Top IPO in 2012. The internet social media website will mostly
likely go public late summer or early fall of 2012. Facebook is one of the greatest websites in the world and approaching
1 billion users. As of August 2011, Facebook was valued around 50 billion but could fetch up to 75-100 billion
when the company goes public. We will have more to come on this when Facebook releases It's S-1 SEC filing.
Top IPO's 2012 - Gilt Groupe
- The Gilt Groupe is considering an IPO in 2012 which will be a hot one. Gilt is the premier destination for online
sample sales offering luxury brands for women, men, children and home. Gilt usually sells designer brands 40-60% off
which is a great deal for bargin shoppers. With the latest round of financing, Gilt will be valued around 600 million
when the company comes public. More to come in 2012.....
New IPO's 2012 - Bats Global Markets (BATS)
- Bats Global Markets should be coming out with their initial public offering early in 2012. The BATS IPO will be the
first exchange IPO in several years. BATS Global Markets (BATS) is an innovative global financial markets technology
company based in the Kansas City, Mo., area with additional offices in New York and London. Driven by its mission of "Making
Markets Better," BATS has become synonymous with great technology, aggressive pricing and outstanding customer service
while catering to the needs of the broker-dealer and trading community.
The BATS trading platforms are internally developed
by a dedicated team of market and technology professionals with BATS Exchange (BZX), the third-largest US securities exchange,
capturing 10% US equities market share in just four years. BATS Europe, the company’s London-based, FSA-authorized subsidiary,
operates a Multilateral Trading Facility executing 10% of the FTSE 100 and 5-6% of the overall Europe market. Like BATS in
the US, BATS Europe is a leader on key market structure topics and has been a driving force in the Europe market on critical
issues such as tick size standardization, common symbology, and interoperable counterparty clearing.
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Other Upcoming IPO's 2012 - Ducati, Santandar
UK, Zynga, Groupon, Chrysler, Univision, EBX Group (Brazil), ViVoTech, Lion Air, Vancl, Living Social, Qatar, OPX Biotechnologies,
Toys R Us, Metito
