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Initial Public Offerings Resources

A resource for IPO-related information that marries non-profit academic and commercial content.

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Free Textual Resources	Press Releases, Standalone Tables, etc.
Are you an entrepreneur or advisor to a firm considering to go public? An advisor to such firms? Read A Resource Page: Summarizing IPOs, the role of experts, empirical regularities, etc. Then add yourself in directory of IPO services and advisors Are you a small retail investor who wants to get into the IPO market? Read Investing in IPOs for Small Retail Investors first. A less biased view is at CNN-FN: The World of ´Everyman IPOs´. Are you a teacher? Perhaps you are interested in G-III: A Teaching Case of an Apparel Company's 1989 Initial Public Offerings Are you a researcher? Check out Academic IPO Papers: A Long Bibliography. Includes List of Active Working Papers, Updated About Bi-Monthly. Are you a journalist, looking for background information or a good interview on a particular subject? Please send email to Ivo Welch and I will try to refer you to a great source (usually a professor) for your particular topic of interest. To find a professor that you have already identified, use the econdir national directory service. If you want to use information from this site, feel free to do so but please quote the source, and name the School of Management at Yale University. Just curious? Want to post a general question? An IPO Discussion Bulletin Board Want to discuss a specific IPO? Confident you can predict how they will do? Please note that the IPO FORUM died by "accidental deletion". Eventually, it will be back. We apologize.	List of IPOs with Industry and MarketCap Information, 1994-1998. [New: 99/11/28] IPO Issuing Activity, 1970-1998, precise. Jay Ritter's List of Big IPO Runups, 1993-1999 Historical Version. 5-Year Performance and Disposition of IPOs By Firm Size, 1980-1997. Amateurs beware: IPOs not for the faint-hearted Not exactly a press release, but close enough: Jay Ritter's article on which has just spawned an anti-trust investigation: The 7 percent solution. The IPO of the year: Goldman Sachs' Final IPO Prospectus filing with the SEC. A legal amateur's interpretation of SEC rules regarding share auctions over the Internet: sec.html. Internet Madness. [New: 2000/01/08] Please contact me if you would like to post a 1-5 page summary for practitioners.

Non-profit Data Base Resources	Non-profit Info Resources
List of IPOs with Industry and MarketCap Information, 1994-1998. [New: 99/11/28] Comprehensive IPO Data Base, 1975-1984. Courtesy of Jay Ritter. Historical Data Base of Insider Holdings (By Name) at and after the IPO. Not updated or complete. Yahoo's Monthly Data on the S&P Industrials Market Return and the S&P500 Return. A perl program to read and process this data: yhoosp500.pl.	Jay Ritter's WWW page. Top IPO professor. Josh Lerner's VC page A chapter on IPOs by Dean LeBaron. Dean's WWW site is Dean LeBaron. SEC advice to small businesses SEC regs for tiny IPOs Edgar: Search company documents filed with the SEC SEC News digest

Commercial Information Resources	Free Advertising: Advisors, Firms, Websites
Securities Data Corp: The primary provider of industrial-strength historical IPO information. Its data base provides the information in the majority of comprehensive studies of the IPO market. Has mediocre WWW site, but nice tables on "biggest" IPOs within most recent month. Almost Exclusively Subscriber Based. Jay Ritter has some corrections here. IPO Monitor: Provider of much useful IPO information for subscribers, and kind enough to provide the "breaking ipo news" content on our own page. 123jump.com: Provider of much useful IPO information for subscribers, and kind enough to provide the "IPO Market in Review" and "IPO Market Calendar" content on our own page. Both Altavista and Yahoo-Finance-IPOs have substantially improved their IPO related information. Free recent and upcoming IPOs, with extra information: Lycos' IPO IPOguys.com is building an educational web site. (Right now, they are primarily selling a book.) The free NASDAQ IPO Calendar for upcoming IPOs. Finally, some unique information: IPOLOCKUP.COM is a calendar of when insiders are allowed to sell their shares. Highly recommended. If you want to know why, read fieldhanka.html. IPO.com: Useful Information. Free upcoming IPO Calendar. Of special interest may be their 1999 Year End Summary. IPO-Fund.com: Useful Information. Free upcoming IPO Calendar. CBS Market Watch, Daily Report: http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/current/ipo_rep.htx. IPODATA.com: Useful Information. History of IPOs Since 1994. Primarily subscriber Based. IPO Central: Useful Information. Primarily Subscriber Based. Going Public: The (Howard) IPO Reporter: Email Only. Exclusively Subscriber Based.	A directory of IPO services and advisors. Any advisor or investor (investment bank, VC, etc.) can enter themselves and read others' entries. A directory of IPO prospects. Any firm seeking funding or advise can enter itself and read others' entries. A directory of IPO Web Sites. Any Webmaster can enter their IPO site. From time to time, entries are "promoted" to inclusion on the main page, i.e., to the left here. A Registration which will make future usage of this site simpler, and direct us towards making content available more suited to you. Please fill out this brief form. [New: 99/11/28]
Syndicated Content

Local Content and Links

Free Textual Resources

Press Releases, Standalone Tables, etc.

Are you an entrepreneur or advisor to a firm considering to go public? An advisor to such firms?
Read A Resource Page: Summarizing IPOs, the role of experts, empirical regularities, etc.
Then add yourself in directory of IPO services and advisors
Are you a small retail investor who wants to get into the IPO market?
Read Investing in IPOs for Small Retail Investors first. A less biased view is at CNN-FN:
The World of ´Everyman IPOs´.
Are you a teacher?
Perhaps you are interested in G-III: A Teaching Case of an Apparel Company's 1989 Initial Public Offerings
Are you a researcher?
Check out Academic IPO Papers: A Long Bibliography. Includes List of Active Working Papers, Updated About Bi-Monthly.
Are you a journalist, looking for background information or a good interview on a particular subject?
Please send email to Ivo Welch and I will try to refer you to a great source (usually a professor) for your particular topic of interest. To find a professor that you have already identified, use the econdir national directory service. If you want to use information from this site, feel free to do so but please quote the source, and name the School of Management at Yale University.
Just curious? Want to post a general question?
An IPO Discussion Bulletin Board
Want to discuss a specific IPO? Confident you can predict how they will do?
Please note that the IPO FORUM died by "accidental deletion". Eventually, it will be back. We apologize.

List of IPOs with Industry and MarketCap Information, 1994-1998. [New: 99/11/28]
IPO Issuing Activity, 1970-1998, precise.
Jay Ritter's List of Big IPO Runups, 1993-1999 Historical Version.
5-Year Performance and Disposition of IPOs By Firm Size, 1980-1997.
Amateurs beware: IPOs not for the faint-hearted
Not exactly a press release, but close enough: Jay Ritter's article on which has just spawned an anti-trust investigation: The 7 percent solution.
The IPO of the year: Goldman Sachs' Final IPO Prospectus filing with the SEC.
A legal amateur's interpretation of SEC rules regarding share auctions over the Internet: sec.html.
Internet Madness. [New: 2000/01/08]

Please contact me if you would like to post a 1-5 page summary for practitioners.

Non-profit Data Base Resources

Non-profit Info Resources

List of IPOs with Industry and MarketCap Information, 1994-1998. [New: 99/11/28]
Comprehensive IPO Data Base, 1975-1984. Courtesy of Jay Ritter.
Historical Data Base of Insider Holdings (By Name) at and after the IPO. Not updated or complete.
Yahoo's Monthly Data on the S&P Industrials Market Return and the S&P500 Return. A perl program to read and process this data: yhoosp500.pl.

Jay Ritter's WWW page. Top IPO professor.
Josh Lerner's VC page
A chapter on IPOs by Dean LeBaron. Dean's WWW site is Dean LeBaron.
SEC advice to small businesses
SEC regs for tiny IPOs
Edgar: Search company documents filed with the SEC
SEC News digest

Commercial Information Resources

Free Advertising: Advisors, Firms, Websites

Securities Data Corp: The primary provider of industrial-strength historical IPO information. Its data base provides the information in the majority of comprehensive studies of the IPO market. Has mediocre WWW site, but nice tables on "biggest" IPOs within most recent month. Almost Exclusively Subscriber Based. Jay Ritter has some corrections here.

IPO Monitor: Provider of much useful IPO information for subscribers, and kind enough to provide the "breaking ipo news" content on our own page.

123jump.com: Provider of much useful IPO information for subscribers, and kind enough to provide the "IPO Market in Review" and "IPO Market Calendar" content on our own page.

Both Altavista and Yahoo-Finance-IPOs have substantially improved their IPO related information.

Free recent and upcoming IPOs, with extra information: Lycos' IPO

IPOguys.com is building an educational web site. (Right now, they are primarily selling a book.)

The free NASDAQ IPO Calendar for upcoming IPOs.

Finally, some unique information: IPOLOCKUP.COM is a calendar of when insiders are allowed to sell their shares. Highly recommended. If you want to know why, read fieldhanka.html.

IPO.com: Useful Information. Free upcoming IPO Calendar. Of special interest may be their 1999 Year End Summary.

IPO-Fund.com: Useful Information. Free upcoming IPO Calendar.

CBS Market Watch, Daily Report: http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/current/ipo_rep.htx.

IPODATA.com: Useful Information. History of IPOs Since 1994. Primarily subscriber Based.

IPO Central: Useful Information. Primarily Subscriber Based.

Going Public: The (Howard) IPO Reporter: Email Only. Exclusively Subscriber Based.

A directory of IPO services and advisors. Any advisor or investor (investment bank, VC, etc.) can enter themselves and read others' entries.
A directory of IPO prospects. Any firm seeking funding or advise can enter itself and read others' entries.
A directory of IPO Web Sites. Any Webmaster can enter their IPO site. From time to time, entries are "promoted" to inclusion on the main page, i.e., to the left here.
A Registration which will make future usage of this site simpler, and direct us towards making content available more suited to you. Please fill out this brief form. [New: 99/11/28]

Syndicated Content

Also check out the NASDAQ IPO Calendar for upcoming IPOs.

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September 11 Web Archive Collection

September 11 Web Archive Collection

http://www.iporesources.org/

Initial Public Offerings Resources

by Ivo Welch, Professor at the International Center for Finance at the School of Management at Yale University.