How robust is
the IPO pipeline?
Russia's
IPO pipeline is bulging with Russian issuers, all aiming to get to market before liquidity is drawn out by anticipated government privatization sales next year.
The global
IPO pipeline is also growing steadily, with Everything Everywhere, the largest mobile network in the UK, expected to raise $ 15 billion.
We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech
IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).
Not enough attention has been paid by the federal government to fixing the blockages to
the IPO pipeline.
David Ludwig of Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division explains that increasing investor confidence and investor willingness to pay more for growth companies have been key drivers behind an attractive tech
IPO pipeline for 2017.
There was a 49 percent spike in the number of tech
IPO pipeline companies headquartered in New York than there were last year.
There are currently 25 companies in the tech
IPO pipeline that are raising or have raised a financing round at a valuation of $ 1 billion or more, according to the data.
His broker - dealer partners are telling
him the IPO pipeline is filled with opportunities.
Nutanix is one of the high - profile unicorns, or venture - backed tech companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, that have been waiting in
the IPO pipeline.
Health care companies represent a third of companies of the 122 companies in
the IPO pipeline, and 60 percent of new filings in August.
Not exact matches
With that in mind, here are 10 best bets for 2016, based in part on research from Renaissance Capital, the
IPO adviser, which examines public offering deal
pipelines.
«People are going to be watching this one move through the
pipeline,» Matt Therian, an analyst with Renaissance Capital, a Connecticut - based
IPO research firm, told Reuters.
«The demand isn't there for smaller
IPOs, so they sit in the
pipeline and wait for the market to turn,» says Dean Braunsteiner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada's national
IPO services leader.
He says there are several «very significant
IPOs in the
pipeline that could revive the total
IPO market and turn around the year.»
Resources sector
IPOs may be sparking up - as seen by Coronado Coal's plans this week - but there is no talk about multi-billion dollar raisings or a $ 15 billion
pipeline.
«People are going to be watching this one move through the
pipeline,» said Matt Therian, analyst with Connecticut - based
IPO research firm Renaissance Capital.
The
IPO market in the US is positioned for a very active fourth quarter, with more than 170 companies in the
pipeline, according to Renaissance Capital, based in Greenwich, Connecticut.
New issues from a number of emerging markets companies in the second half of 2013, as well as a growing deal
pipeline, indicate that there could be significant growth in
IPOs this year, Bon says.
Biotech companies that don't have new drugs or therapies in the
pipeline yet (about 40 percent of all those that went public last year, in fact) tend to take advantage of an
IPO window because they have serious cost burdens --- like multiple drug tests and regulatory approval --- that other VC - backed companies don't have.
Bloomberg reports that Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, the Houston - based
pipeline company taken private three years ago by The Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs's private equity arm in a $ 22 billion leveraged buyout, is proceeding with plans for an
IPO.
Many of last year's enterprise tech
IPOs performed well, giving
pipeline companies confidence in their debuts.
«The Charlotte marks the completion of the seven initial property acquisitions that were described in our prospectus and were under contract at the time of the
IPO,» says Fred Farrar, president and COO of WRT. «Both our acquisition
pipeline and development
pipeline are robust for adding properties beyond those outlined in the
IPO, and we anticipate announcing definitive transactions later this month as well as declare an initial dividend to our shareholders.»