An initial public offering, or IPO, is the term Wall Street uses for the first time a private company sells shares of its stock to the public on one of the major stock exchanges. The event means that the company has made the transition from being privately held, often by private equity companies, to public ownership. That is why an IPO is frequently called “going public.”
We screened the IPOs that Wall Street has been salivating over in anticipation of their arrival, and some could be absolutely out-of-the-park home runs. Here are just some of them.
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