ANALYSIS: Three Decades of IPO Deals (1990-2019)

Was the most recent decade of IPOs as uninspired as some pundits proclaim? How do the twenty-tens measure up against the nineties and the aughts? Turns out that an increase of larger offerings has more than offset the oft-lamented decline in number of deals.

Since 2000, Far Fewer IPOs…

The most frequent lament heard from IPO market observers is there are substantially fewer initial public offerings completed today compared to the dot-com boom of the 1990s. That critique is spot-on. The nineties priced 5,724 initial public offerings during its 10 years, a count that exceeds the IPO count for ...