Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs, are the lifeblood of Wall Street. Monitoring the IPO market is critical for savvy investors because it allows them to gauge the market’s health, follow new trends and accumulate and profit from companies that are early in their bullish trend.
As these new issues offer a way for investors to get on the bus early, prominent and innovative companies are closely watched by analysts and investors on Wall Street.
The IPO Resurgence
Unfortunately for public market investors, the IPO market has waned the past few years. In 2004, for example, 314 companies went public. But less than 200 companies went public in 2022 and 2023 combined.
In a 2016 interview, Mark Cuban explained the problem: “Companies are waiting seven, nine, ten years or longer to go public and by then their hyper-growth is typically gone.” In other words,…