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Strategies & Market Trends : Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments

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To: Land Shark who wrote (12267)12/11/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa   of 18998
 
redherring.com

IPO INSANITY?
In all, Wall Street raised $290.7
million last week and, for those
investors getting in at the offering
price, the average opening-day
gain was 158.5 percent. By
week's end, the graduating class
edged slightly higher, closing on
Friday with an average gain of
173.1 percent per offering.

Nevertheless, the hefty
aftermarket prices of the 1999
new-issue market continue to defy gravity and logic.
As of Friday's close the average aftermarket
performance per IPO, as measured from its opening
price, shows a gain of almost 57 percent. The average
gain over offering price was 160 percent.

"I've never seen anything like this," said a San
Francisco-based money manager who asked not to be
identified. "And I went to work on Wall Street in July
1954." When asked if this had the earmarks of a
"buying climax," he paused and said, "You know, I
think you're right. But I'll keep playing the game. I
don't own stocks, I rent them, and I always have a
cash balance at the end of the day."
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