Besides Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), the fund that I manage is also very involved in secondary offerings. The concept of secondary offerings may not be very familiar to most individual investors, but it actually may have more of an effect on the price of stocks they participate in than originally thought.
A secondary offering is […]
Shares in Comscore, Inc. (SCOR) dropped more than 20% on Tuesday after Google Inc. (GOOG) announced the launch of a new product called AdPlanner. The product will be offered free to advertisers and seek to help these advertisers to place ads more effectively on sites that are applicable to what they are pitching. Google will […]
Verso Paper Corp. (VRS) came public midway through the month of may with a pricing of $12.00 per share. After many other successful launches of IPOs in April, underwriters were trying to make the most of the new-found liquidity and get as many deals priced as possible in order to collect their fees while they […]
Investors holding long positions in FCStone Group, Inc. (FCSX) were met with an unpleasant surprise this morning as the stock traded as much as 20% lower on extremely high volume. Although there is no company specific news listed on the wires at the time of writing, a report from William Blair and Company issued over […]
