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From what I remember, IPO prices tend to aim about 15% below what the market value should be. It's a big incentive to get the big players (institutional investo
by strongcrypto 11y ago
From what I remember, IPO prices tend to aim about 15% below what the market value should be. It's a big incentive to get the big players (institutional investors) to get in on the IPO and get the stock moving. Pretty sure Square might have offered a deeper discount to make the offering look successful.
Regardless of the actual prevalence of that strategy, I don't think we'll have a meaningful narrative about Square's IPO until the market has it for at least a few days.
- noroom 11y agoWhat you remember from where?
- strongcrypto 11y agoFinancial coursework, not anything I can cite but this should work: http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~yaari/Articles-PDF/IPO-Hauser-Yaari-JLEweb.pdf http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~yaari/Articles-PDF/IPO-Hauser-Y.... Estimates that this IPO discount is around 18.4% in the US. "The price discount varies over time and across initial public offering (IPO) mechanisms but remains economically significant everywhere. Span- ning 4 decades and 38 countries, Ritter’s (2003) survey of international studies reports a mean first-day return (commonly equated with the offer price discount, or underpricing) ranging from 5.4 percent (Denmark) to 257 percent (China), with a median return of 20.7 percent...[the] U.S. mean return [was] 18.4 percent [from] 1960–2001"