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On June 13, JBS made its Wall Street debut with an opening share price of $13.65. Despite initial reports that the company had underperformed, the stock has remained at midrange levels, within market expectations. “Stock investors see JBS as a

Crypto asset manager Grayscale said it confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering. The company operates a spot Bitcoin ETF that provides investors exposure to bitcoin’s price movement without owning any of the coin itself. The filing comes after

A SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, is another name for a “blank check company,” meaning an entity with no commercial operations that completes an initial public offering (IPO). Jay Ritter shares his expertise on SPACs in this story from

SPACs have made up 30% of U.S. IPOs since 2003 — but have they lived up to the hype? Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story from The Motley Fool. 

For over three years, venture capital firms have been waiting for this moment. Tech IPOs came to a virtual standstill in early 2022 due to soaring inflation and rising interest rates, while big acquisitions were mostly off the table as increased

One S&P 500 please, hold the diversity, equity and inclusion. That is the proposed selling point of a new index fund launching Tuesday: The exchange-traded fund mirrors the S&P 500 but excludes 37 companies that engage in DEI. Ideologically driven S&P 500 trackers

Jay Ritter discusses the critical importance of valuation for IPO success, the differences between institutional and retail-focused IPOs, the takeaways for management teams and innovations in the IPO process. Listen to Ritter on the Academic IPO Insights podcast. 

U.S. exchange operators are in talks with the Securities and Exchanges Commission on easing regulatory burdens for public companies, as they seek to encourage more richly valued startups to list, according to four people familiar with the matter. IPO insights

Stocks of newly-public companies are surging in their first sessions at the fastest pace in three and a half years, enthralling traders and heating up the market for US first-time share sales. These spectacles may be thrilling to watch, but

Initial public offerings (IPOs) captivate investors with the chance to get in on the ground floor of promising companies, potentially reaping substantial long-term returns as firms like Apple or Amazon once did. Investing $1,000 in AAPL at its IPO in 1980 would be worth