Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...
Tag: Initial Public Offerings
IPOs From 2021 Have Crashed. It May Be Time to Buy Some of Them.
Text size A view of the Fearless Girl statue wearing an F45 Training hat. Noam Galai/Getty Images Most initial public offerings from 2021 have performed badly, and Jefferies suggests that 13 from that...
Alibaba shares decline in Hong Kong, extending Wall Street’s selloff
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. fell in Hong Kong morning trading, extending a selloff overnight on Wall Street after its fintech arm Ant Group Co. denied reports about a revival of its initial public offe...
Facebook Changed Name, Now Changing Ticker. What It Means for the Stock.
Text size Meta Platforms follows a number of high-profile companies that changed their ticker symbols. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms , formerly known as Facebook , is taking the...
Qualcomm Keen to Buy Arm Stake in Chip Designer’s Upcoming IPO, CEO Says
Text size Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon hasn’t yet spoken to SoftBank about a potential investment in Arm, the FT reports. Mario Tama/Getty Images Qualcomm is keen to buy a stake in SoftBank Group...
Snowflake Stock Looks Like a Buy
Text size Snowflake went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020. The stock more than doubled on its first day of trading. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock It’s been more than 600 days since...
Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys
After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...
You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.
A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...
Doximity stock plummets after forecast, heads lower than IPO price for first time
Doximity Inc. shares plunged toward all-time lows in after-hours trading Tuesday, following an earnings report that projected an unexpected revenue decline in the current quarter. Doximity DOCS, +2.36...
Are SPACs That Bad? Study Find Similar Returns for Blank Checks and IPOs
Text size A wheel loader moves ore at MP Materials’ mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Special-purpose acquisition companies have lost their luster this year. But recent data ...
Beyond Meat’s stock slides 20% on weak sales, heads lower than IPO price for first time
Beyond Meat Inc.’s not-so-good 2022 took an ugly turn for the worse Wednesday with quarterly results that lacked sizzle. The maker of plant-based meat products BYND, -13.83% reported a net loss of $10...
Dutch Bros. stock spills 37% lower after forecast cut due to inflation
After its third quarterly earnings report since going public, coffee chain Dutch Bros. Inc.’s shares were slaughtered in late trading Wednesday after executives revised their annual outlook to predict...
How to Hitch a Ride on the Porsche IPO
Porsche POAHY 2.09% was more profitable than ever in the first quarter. Investors will have to wait until the fall for its initial public offering, but there are indirect ways to get in early. Volkswa...
Rivian’s IPO Lockup Is Almost Over. Here’s What that Means for the Stock.
Text size Door panels for the R1T, Rivian’s electric pickup truck, are ready for installation on the trim line. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive investors have been dealing with a lot lately. S...
NerdWallet and SoFi CEOs Bought Up Stock on the Dip
Text size NerdWallet’s app Courtesy NerdWallet Shares of companies pointed at the personal-financial space have been pummeled far worse than the broader market, but their chief executives are bu...
Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.
Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...
Giant U.S. Pension Bought Up EV Stocks NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, and Rivian
Text size A Nio eP9 car Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images The second-largest U.S. pension by assets bought up shares of four electric-vehicle makers as 2021 was coming to a close. Unfortunately, the...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report
Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...
Mobile shopping company Wish’s stock gains as Foot Locker exec is named as new CEO
Wish parent company Contextlogic Inc. announced Monday that it found its new chief executive at Foot Locker Inc., and shares gained in late trading. Vijay Talwar, most recently the CEO for Foot Locker...
The Worst Big IPOs of 2021
Text size Oscar Health shares closed at $6.20 on Friday, down 84% from the IPO price. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg IPOs soared for most of 2021, making the year one of the best ever for companies to list the...
Ford to book $8.2 billion fourth-quarter profit on Rivian investment
Ford Motor Co. said late Tuesday it will post an $8.2 billion gain in the fourth quarter related to its investment in Rivian Automotive Inc. following the electric-vehicle maker’s November initial pub...
Robinhood Is Making Changes. Keep an Eye on Its Stock.
Text size Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Robinhood Markets stock is in the doldrums, down more than 50% from its initial public offering price in July. The company is making moves to reverse that decl...
Opinion: Once richly valued, ‘unicorn’ startups are being gored and investors and funders have stopped believing
When Homer Simpson was asked, “How are we going to get out of this hole?,” he replied, “We’ll dig our way out!” Many people who find themselves in holes they can’t climb out of think that the solution...