While the market for IPOs has been strong recently, with successes from companies like Oddity Tech and Cava, it’s mostly a game of speculation to predict which A.I. companies will be ready to go public first. However, some metrics from past
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Vietnam’s richest man poised to briefly triple fortune on EV bet
Pham Nhat Vuong has the paperwork in place to take his electric-vehicle maker VinFast public through a SPAC listing with a blank-check firm. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on this deal, which would give VinFast an equity value of
What will trigger the next tech IPO boom? It’s not SoftBank’s chipmaker Arm
Is the IPO dry spell in tech finally over? Not so fast, says Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter. Read Ritter’s insights in this story from Yahoo! Finance.
Trump-tied SPAC hits another snag as auditor abruptly resigns
A deal to take Donald Trump’s media company public is facing another major setback, putting into question whether it will ever get completed. “It is still a question about whether the deal will ever make it to the finish line,”
Trump’s SPAC deal tests stock-market faithful with clock ticking
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special-purpose acquisition company that’s seeking to take Trump’s nascent media company public. While Digital World recently struck a tentative agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to end
Influencer backlash is the latest threat to fast-fashion giant Shein’s IPO plans
The retailer’s China junket for social media creators revived bad press about working conditions. The hubbub threatens Shein’s attempts to go public in New York, which the company began planning in 2020 with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other investment
Nvidia has investors wondering: How long can a stock grow faster than the market?
Few companies grow at above-average rates for more than a year or two. Or, as the late British economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes famously put it, trees don’t grow to the sky. This is especially important to remember now,
IPO window cracks open and private equity moves in
The IPO window has opened—at least a crack—and private-equity sponsors are starting to line up. Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar, said public stock investors are willing to put their money behind companies that lay out growth plans. An extreme example
As Deadlines Loom, SPACs Strike Array of Pacts With Health Firms
Deal-needy SPACs have struck a series of pacts to take small health-care companies public as they race against the clock to avoid the risk of forfeiting the money they raised. “As the deadline approaches, the sponsors are saying a deal
Opinion: Will ChatGPT and AI save money-losing tech stocks from the short-sellers?
The stock market allows investors to share in the long-run profits generated by well-run businesses. It also allows speculators to buy lottery tickets on startups that may succeed but usually don’t. In 2022, Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter reported on
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