In August, the company raised an eye-watering $475 million in funding.( 2) The new capital brings Airbnb’s total funding to $801 million. There’s a good chance Airbnb, an online room-renting service, will go public this year. Accordingly, here are the top IPOs for investors to watch out for this year: economy showing signs of sustained growth, many investors are hoping 2015 will be just as exciting in the IPO area as it was last year.
With the stock markets in a five-year-plus bull run and the U.S. This is an area in which investors need to exercise caution and due diligence. So as you can see, the top-performing IPOs aren’t always the ones that make the front page, and those that make the front page don’t always live up to the hype. The developer of treatments for patients with osteoporosis (and other serious endocrine-mediated diseases) went public on June 6 at around $8.00 and ended the year up more than 380%. That title goes to the lesser-known Radius Health, Inc.
While the share price has since pulled back from its $120.00 high, it’s still trading above its IPO at around $100.00.ĭespite all the attention, Alibaba wasn’t the top-performing IPO of 2014. On Friday, September 19, Alibaba opened up more than 35% above the $68.00 IPO price. Currently trading at $37.11, Twitter is down 18% from its IPO price.Ģ014 was the year that saw Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE/BABA) raise a record-breaking $25.0 billion during its IPO. But in a world where valuation and fundamentals matter, Twitter has since fallen on hard times. By the end of the year, Twitter had hit a high of $72.88. Opportunistic investors, on the other hand, saw their investment slip away. Long-term investors were probably a little concerned, but also willing to wait it out and today, they’re likely very glad they did. Over the ensuing months, Facebook’s share price continued to decline, touching a low of $18.75 on August 20, 2012. (NASDAQ/FB), one of the most highly anticipated IPOs of 2012, was a bust. The key is to know when the hype is warranted and when to take a wait-and-see approach instead.ĭon’t Always Follow the High-Profile IPO HypeĬase in point: Facebook, Inc. Despite hot IPOs generating large amounts of news coverage and analysts waxing on about their unlimited potential, the fact of the matter is that IPOs aren’t always a good investment. exchanges raise $85.0 billion( 1), representing the best year in terms of number and value since 2000, investors may be duped into thinking making money on IPOs is a sure thing in 2015. With visions of quick money to be made, many investors throw caution to the wind, ignore potential risks, and jump in at any cost.įollowing a year that saw investors help the 275 companies with IPOs on U.S. IPOs offer investors a unique opportunity to get involved in a publicly traded company on the first day of trading. Investors may want to keep an eye on the following top IPOs in 2015: Airbnb, Pinterest, Spotify, Uber, and Xiaomi. Now there are some highly anticipated IPOs to watch for in 2015. Thanks to major initial public offerings (IPOs) like Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE/BABA), 2014 was a bonanza for IPOs and a definite banner year. 03:41:38 Upcoming IPOs to watch for 2015, with 2014 being such a banner year for IPO, this area of investing is bound to get lot of attention from investors in 2015.
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