- IPO market shows signs of life
A few technology companies dipped their toes into the IPO pond over the summer and found that the water was just fine. FormFactor , a maker of wafer probe cards for semiconductor manufacturing, went public in June. FormFactor was the first tech IPO since December 2002, when disk drive maker ......
- 2006 instrument firm IPOs.
It was a quiet year for initial public offerings (IPOs) by analytical instrument or related companies. However, of those instrument companies that did go public, Environnement SA's offering was a success. Listed on the Alternext exchange by Euronext Paris in January, the stock's value had increased 28% by year end....
- Buyout specialist raises $50 million equity fund
After nearly a century in business, buyout specialist Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co. Inc. has nearly perfected its company evaluation technique. A simple formula has vaulted HKW's performance into the top 10 percent of its peers for the last two decades. "We joke about a two-minute rule," President and CEO ......
- Prospects worsen with exit strategies
In Venture Capital Survey 2001, an October assessment of the U.S. venture capital market, 81 percent of backers said investment prospects are worse now than they were last year. One reason: exit strategies. Two investors who run Central Pennsylvania's only early-stage technology fund agree. Exit strategies are how a venture ......
- Yields & Deals-Kraft IPO goes gangbusters but analyst lowers profit estimate
On June 18, net proceeds of the initial public offering (IPO) for Kraft Foods, Inc., Northfield, IL, amounted to approximately $8.4 billion. Demand was so great that orders for the 280-million share IPO reportedly exceeded supply by as much as eight times availability.
- RIDING THE IPO WAVE
HEADNOTE BRAZIL As the Brazilian central bank hikes the benchmark lending rate to curb inflation, resulting high interest rates are prompting a streak of IPOs on the SIo Paulo stock exchange (Bovespa), as corporates shun loans to raise financing through equity issuance. Companies have raised more than $1 billion through ......
- ARGENTINE UTILITY LISTS ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
HEADNOTE DR NEWS Edenor, a Buenos Aires-based electricity distributor, became the 12th Argentina-based company to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, following its Initial public offering in the United States and Argentina. The company, also known as Distribution and Marketing Company of the North, raised $258 million in its ......