Jay Ritter Articles: page 2

“Airbnb Inc. swung to a loss for the first nine months of last year as costs rose sharply, according to people close to the company, raising questions about the valuation and timing of the home-sharing giant’s much-anticipated public-markets debut,” writes The Wall Street Journal.  The loss isn’t too unusual, though, according to Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter, as he’s found that fewer than one in four technology IPOs in the five years through 2019 were profitable.  See what else

CNBC’s “Power Lunch” team discusses the upcoming Casper IPO with Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair and IPO expert. See what Ritter had to say about why investors are ghosting Casper. 

“Tesla Inc. shares have doubled in three months, while General Electric Co. shares are up 44%. The pair are the two most valuable loss-making companies, part of a shockingly high proportion of listed companies that have been losing money—despite, or perhaps because of, the long bull market,” writes the Wall Street Journal.  Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter shares research showing how about three-quarters of IPOs were made by loss-making companies last year in a story from senior WSJ columnist James

As Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco is set to go public, investors should consider a number of factors when thinking about buying shares. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter comments on when to consider buying into Aramco in this story from The Wall Street Journal. 

“For all the euphoria over the likes of ride-sharing app Uber, the chief feature (apart from the lack of profits) of several of these companies since their listing has been their disappointing performance. Uber shares, for example, have plunged more than 30 per cent since the group’s IPO. Analysts say the poor performance is partly a product of investors having been sucked into the hype surrounding them,” writes the Financial Times.  Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter comments on how

“Uber Technologies Inc. shares hit an all-time low Wednesday as the ‘lockup’ period following its May initial public offering ended, delivering a blow to a company that has struggled to satisfy investors,” writes The Wall Street Journal.  Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter commented on the shares traded after the lockup period ended and more in this story from The Wall Street Journal. 

“Spotify announced Monday that its finance chief, Barry McCarthy, 66, would retire in January. McCarthy helped take the music-streaming giant public last year with an unconventional approach that skirted around the traditional IPO process and investment bank middlemen. In a risky move, McCarthy circumvented the traditional initial public offering, its roadshow and underwriters’ fees, and instead executing a direct listing, a process where shareholders sell existing shares directly to the public without the company going through an intermediary. The tactic

“As privatisations spread, investment banks such as Goldman used a new technique called book-building to ramp up enthusiasm [for IPOs]. Rather than only tapping retail investors, they allocated blocks of shares to money managers such as Fidelity Investments, increasing the pool of capital available. Since then, the American IPO model has conquered the world,” writes The Economist.  Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair Jay Ritter comments on how the underpricing of IPOs in America has left billions, yes, billions, on the table in

“Saudi Aramco — the state-run oil giant — is reportedly delaying its initial public offering, which Saudi Arabia has valued as high as $2 trillion,” writes Marketplace. “Despite the delay, the oil giant is planning on issuing a prospectus, giving investors some details about what’s going on under the hood of the world’s biggest energy company. A prospectus is a pretty important part of any initial public offering. But for this particular company, investors are going to be paying extra