IPO Calendar List 2012
- Best Up and Coming IPO's 2012
What is an IPO? IPO is short for Initial Public Offering which is another phrase for a new stock
listed on an exchange. Each month, the IPO Calendar fills up with companies wanting to go public and issue stock.
In 2012, we will see some of the best stocks come public including Facebook, BATS Trading, and the Gilt Groupe.
See additional details on these 2012 IPO's below.
IPO's offer excitement because new stocks tend
to get a pop on the first and second day of trading. Why is this you ask? When a stock IPO's, most of the
shares remain locked up for 6-12 months leaving a small amount of stock trading during IPO day. With such
little stock trading combined with high demand for an IPO, you get a buying frenzy which produces some of the biggest
gainers of the year. For example, in 2011, LinkedIn (LNKD) went public with a price of $45. The stock opened at
$80 and ran to $120 in a few hours. If you would have bought LNKD in the morning, you could have sold this stock in
the afternoon for well over $100. We also saw YOKU and DANG, the two best chinese IPO's in 2010, rally big the first
and second day of their IPO. Don't forget to take profits though. Insiders have their stock locked up during the
first 6 months of coming public. When the lock-up expiration comes due, the IPO tends to come under heavy selling pressure
with insiders selling their stock into the open stock market. If you plan to trade IPO's, always use tight stop orders
and take profits when you have them.
Through the year of 2012, I will list new IPO's under
the IPO Calendar below. Check back for IPO updates which will be starting soon!
IPO's 2012 - Best IPO in 2012 - Facebook
(FB) - Facebook will end up being the Top IPO in 2012. The internet social media website will mostly
likely go public in May 2012. Facebook is one of the greatest websites in the world and approaching 1 billion users.
As of April 2012, Facebook was valued around 105 billion but could fetch up to 130-150 billion when the company
goes public. Facebook (FB) stock discussion forum - Here
Top IPO's 2012 - Gilt Groupe
- The Gilt Groupe is considering an IPO in 2012 which will be a hot one. Gilt is the premier destination for online
sample sales offering luxury brands for women, men, children and home. Gilt usually sells designer brands 40-60% off
which is a great deal for bargin shoppers. With the latest round of financing, Gilt will be valued around 600 million
when the company comes public. More to come in 2012.....
New IPO's 2012 - IPO's have been hot so far in 2012
- The YELP IPO opened at $25, sold off to $19, and then popped to $31 before seeing a pullback. Millennial Media
(MM) is probably the top IPO in 2012 and is probably one of the best IPO's we've seen for while. MM stock priced at
$13 and opened up around $26 which was a 100% gain. Other best performing IPOs are DemandWare (DWRE) and Michael Kors
(KORS). KORS stock is up 93% since It's initial public offering back in December.
Facebook (FB) will probably
be a hot one since the allocation share amount will be on the small side. I see the demand for Facebook (FB) stock being
way higher than the actual float shares. This could send the market cap of Facebook through the roof and the stock will
gap higher when it opens for trading. However, I'd rather buy Apple (AAPL) which will trade for a 50-70% discount when
you compare it to Facebook's valuation.
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Other Upcoming IPO's 2012 - Ducati, Santandar
UK, Chrysler, Univision, EBX Group (Brazil), ViVoTech, Lion Air, Vancl, Living Social, Qatar, OPX Biotechnologies, Toys R
Us, Metito
IPO's in 2013 - Pinterest - Pinterest is in the top 20 U.S websites
and is exploding in growth. A Pinterest IPO would be huge and the ticker symbol would probably be PINT
Twitter (TWIT) - Twitter could IPO under the ticker symbol TWIT in 2013.
