Tag: IPO

 

IPO Strategy: Perfect timing for A123

Published on September 24, 2009

This is schedule to be the busiest week for IPOs since 2007. At least for A123 (NASDAQ:AONE), the timing could not be any better. The company is going public at the perfect time.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): The timing could not be much better. With the cresting at the top of unsustainable territory and [...]

OpenTable IPO: You paid how much?

Published on May 22, 2009

It is great to see the IPO market doing well, but investors had better pay attention. It is starting to look like the Tech bubble all over again. This will not have good results.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): Sometimes I am amazed that a company is even in business, let alone going public [...]

IPO Investing: The pipeline is still running dry

Published on August 25, 2008

There may be pressure building. But with investors spooked, chances are the IPO market will remain as dead as Kevin Federlines singing career.

Confidentially, Holmes, the VISA IPO may have been the last decent IPO for months to come

Published on July 4, 2008

If there’s one sector that’s been battered, beaten, and pulped this year, it’s been the IPO market. In fact, things are so bad that—despite of the successful VISA IPO—in all of Q2, there were no venture-backed offerings at all. With good reason: Risk.

Buy Little Sheep (0968) Below HK$2.88

Published on June 17, 2008

“With the IPO market in Asia just as lackluster as it’s been in the U.S. this year, investors were as pleased as punch that any company as healthy and growth-oriented as Little Sheep was going public. It was a small IPO, but it was enough to get the fellas in Hong Kong excited.” — Stephanie [...]

Buy This Hong Kong Hot Pot IPO

Published on June 10, 2008

“Little Sheep Hot Pot will begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this Thursday to the glee of investors. The company has built an empire of 330 restaurants in China, the U.S. and Japan in less than 10 years, and it’s still predicting record profits for 2008.”– Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore — (TFN): Supreme [...]

Lehman Brothers (LEH): The next bank in need of a bailout?

Published on May 29, 2008

“Most of Wall Street’s moneymaking machines have shut down. Mortgage-securitization activity has gone kaput, while IPO and M&A activities are sputtering. Even worse, Billions of dollars of future writedowns and losses are still buried inside Wall Street’s balance sheets.” — Dan Amoss
by Dan Amoss
Baltimore – (TFN): Since [...]

Upcoming IPOs: Deprivation makes Penthouse look like a winner now

Published on April 10, 2008

by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): I just received a mass emailing by an old associate in the financial publishing business. It contained tantalizing glimpses of a new product the team back home at the ranch is working on. Also included was the promise of a brand-spanking new trading information service, run by a mysterious [...]

Our latest TFN Hot Stock Pick video podcast is now available

Published on March 28, 2008

Baltimore: The video podcast for our TFN Hot Stock Pick: Indium IPO — Buy or pass on this rare metal? can now be downloaded to your iTunes or PodcastAlley.com accounts.

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Our latest TFN Audio Podcast is now online!

Published on March 28, 2008

Baltimore: The podcast for our latest

Hot Stock Pick and Market Insights

videos can now be downloaded to your iTunes or PodcastAlley.com accounts.

Indium IPO: Buy or pass on this rare metal?

The Great Decoupling Debate

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Safe Investing: Adult web sites?

Published on March 24, 2008

"While it is certainly not a company with high moral or ethical values, it offers investors a shot at some pretty hefty profits. " – Andrew Snyder 

By Andrew Snyder

Baltimore (TFN) — This market is a stock trader’s dream come true.  One day the market is up 200 points, the next day it gives back its gains and heads lower.  Guys like Jim Cramer are shouting, "Buy, buy, buy," while in-the-pit…

Visa IPO: “Don’t be suckered in!”

Published on March 6, 2008

"Do not forget, Visa recently announced it lost $861 million last year, on revenues of over $5.2 billion. Numbers like that do not deserve the $38 billion market cap Visa is expecting. Stay away from this one, at least until it sheds its early overvalued price." — Andrew Snyder

by Andrew Snyder

Baltimore — (TFN): Don't be suckered into…

Visa IPO: Mind the pitfalls

Published on March 6, 2008

Baltimore — (TFN): When Visa offers its stock to investors in just a few weeks, it is expected to draw a record-breaking offering. Thanks to Mastercard’s recent IPO victory, Visa plans to piggyback on the success. Unfortunately, the market is dramatically different now. Visa’s share price will plunge shortly after its offering. If you want to get your hands on the company…

Visa IPO: Better than MasterCard?

Published on March 4, 2008

"If you missed out on Mastercard last time, Visa could be your next chance at being a millionaire… even a billionaire." — Ann Sosnowski

by Ann Sosnowski

Baltimore — (TFN): In the biggest IPO offering since 2004, MasterCard Inc. (MA:NYSE) raised $2.4 billion in 2006. Investors who hopped onto that IPO could have ended up with 463% gains.

In fact, Diligent Investor subscribers ended up with gains of 259%…

IPO Watch: Buying Discovery Channel

Published on December 17, 2007

"With Fox airing a game show involving a lie detector and a bunch of very personal questions and ABC offering up a series called simply Dirty Sexy Money, maybe its time to gamble on middling-brow programming" — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN) I miss the days when the Discovery Channel [...]

China IPO Backdoor Strategy: Buy this mobile content company now for less than the cost of a movie ticket!

Published on November 26, 2007

by Stephanie Grimmett, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): China Mobile (CHL: NYSE) is as ubiquitous in its homeland as Verizon is in the United States. And the company has popped up everywhere in the last few weeks. As you may recall, Taipan recommended China Mobile, the largest Chinese cellphone company, in the June issue. If you were lucky enough to get into the stock back then…

US Stock IPOs: Use this “secret” IPO Fund to buy Visa’s upcoming new IPO

Published on November 23, 2007

“Visa could very well be the most sought after and most powerful IPO stock the world has ever seen.” — Ann Sosnowski
by Ann Sosnowski, TFN
Baltimore — (TFN): The IPO market has been on a tear this year. And just recently a new kid has announced intentions to move onto the IPO block, forecasting even [...]

China IPOs: Record number of US IPOs by Chinese companies spell opportunity

Published on November 14, 2007

“In 2007, Chinese companies have represented 12% of all US IPOs, eclipsing all other foreign companies’ US IPOs combined.”
Today’sFinancialNews.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Baltimore — (TFN): According to a report by US-based Renaissance Capital, the number of Chinese IPOs on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ is growing at a record pace.
In 2007, [...]