How to Use IPO in a Sentence

IPO

noun
  • Pierpoint is managing its IPO, which quickly fails in the marketplace after being oversold.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The stock is up more than 10% from its $78 IPO price, as of Thursday’s close.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The company’s stock is up more than 27% since its IPO this spring.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 July 2023
  • The company is now valued at $4 billion and an IPO is in the works.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Now, there’s hope that the IPO window will continue to open.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The people who will be buying in on the IPO are gambling on Arm’s future.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Combine that with today’s IPO market, and Shein may be in for a bumpy ride.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Google is on the wall because Davis missed out buying into its 2004 IPO.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Well, many of those users don’t seem very happy about the IPO and are expecting Huffman to run the site into the ground.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The Swedish buy-now-pay-later startup plans to launch an IPO that would value the firm at around $20 billion.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Arm shares soared Thursday, closing up 25% from their $51 IPO price.
    WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Although there are hints the IPO market may soon open up, the private markets are still stalled.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Levitan says that the company has no plans for an IPO at this time.
    Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
  • Jeff Bezos is among that group -- his $3 million stake could be worth $400 million at IPO time.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 3 May 2019
  • One such case would be if your option strike prices are far above the price at which the company is expected to IPO.
    Scott Chou, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Cava’s stock is soaring and its IPO was one of the highest-performing last year.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Forward of the beach club, compliments of the IPO engine layout, is the lower salon.
    Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Shares of Instacart dropped below the IPO price of $30 on the grocery-delivery company’s third day of trading.
    WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Those other sources of revenue grew at only 8 percent last year, though momentum may be picking up ahead of the IPO.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Airbnb shares doubled in their market debut and had climbed nearly threefold from their IPO price through Wednesday’s close.
    Preetika Rana, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • None of them are listed among Reddit’s largest shareholders heading into the IPO.
    TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The code will come into force on July 31 with the IPO set to carry out a first review of its implementation early next year.
    Richard Smirke, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Alzheimer’s drug at the center of that IPO ultimately failed, but the company had other successes.
    Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That’s when the company filed its S-1 in advance of an IPO and analysts noticed troubling year-over-year losses.
    Christelle Rohaut, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The fast fashion giant has long been viewed as a bellwether IPO candidate (and a controversial one).
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 June 2024
  • The firm invests for the long-term and has guided many of its portfolio companies to IPO or acquisition-and beyond.
    Andrew Turner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Instacart is seeking a valuation of about $7.7 billion at the top end of the range based on the current number of shares outstanding in its IPO filing.
    Ryan Gould, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Endeavor planned to launch an IPO in 2019 but later delayed it due to market conditions.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Private equity firms often use the IPO market, as well as mergers, to sell their stakes in companies.
    Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • However, that avenue for revenue, and accordingly the group’s IPO prospects, is now in jeopardy.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 15 Apr. 2024

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