Faculty & Research
Jay Ritter

ABC News | Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff
April 2, 2025 • Reading Time: < 1 minute

Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares. The filing provides updated information about Trump’s majority stake in the company and flags the possibility of an additional 8 million shares hitting the open market, according to University of Florida

Warrington in the News
  • April 2, 2025

    Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares. The filing provides updated information about Trump’s majority stake in the company and flags the possibility of an additional 8 million shares hitting the open market, according to University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter, who described the filing as a requirement if the company insiders attempted to sell off their shares.

    Jay Ritter

    Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff

     ABC News
  • April 2, 2025

    The market for initial public markets has basically been frozen for three years. And CoreWeave’s recent IPO has done nothing to change the dynamic, suggesting 2025 could be another IPO bust. There hasn’t been a good market for IPOs since 2021, when 311 companies listed, according to Jay Ritter of the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.

    Jay Ritter

    What CoreWeave stock’s trading means for the IPO market

     Barron's
  • March 31, 2025

    The offering has captured the attention of investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, as CoreWeave represents the first pure-play AI IPO and the largest tech debut in the U.S. in four years. The IPO market has been largely shut since the end of 2021, as the tech industry reckoned with rising inflation and interest rates. Research data from Jay Ritter informs this story.

    Jay Ritter

    Nvidia-backed CoreWeave closes flat at $40 after biggest U.S. tech IPO since 2021

     CNBC
  • March 31, 2025

    CoreWeave, a hotly anticipated initial public offering, priced on Thursday below its range, at $40 a share for a valuation of $23 billion, raising some $1.5 billion, well below earlier expectations. Jay Ritter shares his insight on the debut.

    Jay Ritter

    CoreWeave Debuts: A Big IPO in a Slow Year

     Barron's
  • March 21, 2025

    Widely misunderstood, blockchain technology and cryptoassets are often wrongly associated with anarchy and upheaval, explains Associate Professor Fahad Saleh in this column from the Tampa Bay Times.

    Fahad Saleh

    Here’s how the U.S. can work with Bitcoin and blockchain for consumers

     Tampa Bay Times

Alumni & Friends
David Rattner with his award.

Bergstrom Center honors Alumnus of the Year, David Rattner
March 7, 2025 • Reading Time: 3 minutes

The University of Florida Warrington College of Business is proud to honor David Rattner (MSRE ’03) as the Bergstrom Real Estate Center’s Alumnus of the Year. Rattner is the President of Blue Sky Holdings, a real estate and development firm that focuses on retail and multi-family properties nationwide which he launched in 2008. He has developed strong, reliable relationships with the industry’s top real estate managers and brokers and holds

Students
UF students receive 2nd place at UGA Stock Pitch Competition

Potatoes and Python: How Warrington finance students earned 2nd place at UGA stock pitch competition
March 12, 2025 • Reading Time: 2 minutes

University of Florida Warrington College of Business finance students Nicolas Schull (MSF ’26), Robert Craig (MSF ’26), and Ari Fooksman (MSF ’26) placed second in the 11th annual University of Georgia Stock Pitch Competition, showcasing their investing expertise to industry professionals while competing against students from top universities. Out of 109 team applications, a select 15 were chosen to compete in the event hosted by the Student Managed Investment Fund

Rankings
Financial Times #7 among publics, #1 career services, #2 value for money.

No. 1 career services, No. 2 value for money power UF’s performance in Financial Times 2025 Global MBA ranking to No. 7 public MBA program
February 17, 2025 • Reading Time: 2 minutes

The University of Florida Warrington College of Business’s Full-Time MBA program is among the nation’s top 10 public programs as well as the best overall for career services and value, according to the “2025 Global MBA Ranking” from Financial Times. “The continued recognition of our career services and value of the entire experience demonstrates what we consistently see in our alumni outcomes – that our program delivers exceptional return on