initial public offering

noun

: the first sale of a company's stock to the public

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The company had priced its initial public offering of 70 million shares at $25 to raise $1.75 billion for a total valuation of about $60.5 billion. Spencer Kimball,pippa Stevens, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025 Remember the excitement when Alibaba listed its initial public offering in New York in 2014, when Didi took over Uber in China in 2016, when Facebook was imitating WeChat, and when a partner from the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz preached the power of WeChat? Li Yuan, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 Bloks’ Hong Kong initial public offering Friday was 6,000 times oversubscribed and wildly popular after trading began, giving Zhu, the 42-year-old chairman and CEO, a fortune of $1.7 billion mostly based on his stake in the company, according to Forbes estimates. Yue Wang, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 In the same 2023 announcement tapping Dueñas as its latest CEO, Panera said the leadership transition is to prepare for an eventual initial public offering. Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for initial public offering 

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“Initial public offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/initial%20public%20offering. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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