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Here Is The Reason Why Half Of Today's IPOs Were Pulled
The market is 4% off its all time highs which means the time to pull IPOs due to "market conditions" has come.
Indeed, out of today's 8 scheduled IPOs, only 4 have been successful. The other four, which also include all of today's proposed biotech IPOs and not to mention Paycom Technologies, a company whose S-1 includes every buzz word imaginable to cloud-based, social-networked man, and which provides "comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management or HCM, software solution delivered as Software-as-a-Service,", have been delayed either temporarily or permanently. Why? The chart below should explain it.
Shown below is the proposed capital raise (based on the midpoint of the indicated IPO range) relative to the company net income, or rather, net loss. It is one of those that needs no comment, but for those who are confused - momentum chasing lemmings suddenly aren't as impressed with cash-burning companies that rely soly on stories of unlimited upside when looking for the greatest fool.
And yet, something is odd about this chart. It is oddly reminiscent of our chart from last Friday showing the IPOs that succeeded. In fact, the two are almost identical.
In other words, in the span of 7 days, something has dramatically changed. What that something is will be revealed as increasingly more market top-ticking IPOs by cash-burning companies are pulled.
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They are holding out for MOAR...Bitchez
Moar fools.
dup
You guys are doing it wrong. "Capital raised" equals "Net income". DUH
Investors tired of being treated like muppets?
Nah...I think the auditors woke up, realising they're fxxked by the smart accountants.
no wool on the woolie
Coldwater Creek files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy(Reuters)
(Reuters) - Women's clothing retailer Coldwater Creek Inc on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest in a growing list of retailers to seek protection from creditors as consumers keep a lid on spending.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/coldwater-creek-bankruptcy-idU...
And CheapBastard, here's why...
Ugly clothes at crazy prices:
http://www.coldwatercreek.com/product-detail/63596/70417/travel-knit-tee.aspx?refLink=knit-tops-and-tees.aspx
No stool on the stoolie!
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
Would you like to glide in my beautiful balloon?
We could flow among the stars, together you and I
For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
In my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
In my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Suspended under the twilight canopy
We'll search the sky for a star to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
We'll find a cloud to hide us, keep the moon beside us
Love is waiting there, in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air, in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand, we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly, up, up and away
(For we can fly)
In my beautiful, my beautiful balloon, balloon
Up, up and away
Up, up and away
Up, up and away
"Love, American Style".
Love, American style.
Truer than the red, white and blue.
Love, American style.
That's me and you
Executive cash-out delayed indefinitely.
Oink Oink Bitches!
Is that you, Miss Piggy?
You mean it isnt the NASA bombing the moon
"Mission managers will send the orbiter a signal to turn off all its science instruments on 11 April and set the craft on course for a crash landing. But the moon's gravity field is very uneven, and variations in the field will affect LADEE's path as it descends. That means no one is certain exactly when or where on the far side it will crash, just that it should happen sometime before 21 April."
I would like to start a biotech IPO for my company Drunken Enterprises. We specialize in turning beer into urine. Bet you I could make a killing...
Your stock ticker should be PEE to assure shareholders that your company isn't more of the same crap.
Don't forget to include the word organic, sustainable, and green.
Spring Break.
YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaa.
GrubHub has to be a winner ! ...fat and lazy ass Murikans need their food delivered to their door. Next will be an IPO that puts the food in their mouth , then another to chew it for them. aw, fuck it.
I'm still waiting on the SnapChat IPO, kiddie porn will always be a line item in government budgets.
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To automate and operate your life in ways you can't replicate."
And one that'll wipe their ass.
Its hard on the mind to log onto ZH or Bloomberg these days. The stupidity is mind numbing...
The Old Spitzer was stupid also.
I am having a tough time seeing where the problem is here. If these companies aren't making money now that just means they are going to have a ton of room for growth in the future. Notihng but positive for the stocks.
Then they should stay as private companies. If they can't make a profit for shareholders why should they be A. valued so high and B. be offered to the public?
Down arrow because "things are different."
That, and the fact that you missed the implied /s
Stocks are being priced relative to revenues instead of profits -
Marc Faber
DOW 1,000,000,000 etc.................
KEEP THE QE MACHINE GOING! SOON, THE GOVERNMENT WILL OWN EVERYTHING.
Opower? Is barack going public? He has the losing money part down pat.
Years ago I worked at a reasonably high level in Finance at a german Biotech that had just IPO'd prior to my coming onboard. They laughed internally about how they timed the release to hit what they thought was the max stupidity and euphoria of the market, to crank in as much cash as possible so they could keep the "research" going for the upcoming product failure as long as possible. These fucking clowns could not find enough ways to waste that money on their lifestyles, first class everything, and anything other than corporate activity.
I protested numerous times, was basically told to get on the gravy train and shut up, so instead I quit. They were pissed at me anyway because I refused to sign docs that were blatant fraud to submit to the german govt for reimbursement. They were buying high-priced assets for use in various grants, and then getting reimbursed multiple times by multiple agencies, and were way overallocating time and whatnot. Fucking thieves.
It went bankrupt a couple years later. Likely ripped of the US govt too as it had a facility outside of Boston.
...this just in . . . . shares of SHITGUM have been pulled . . .
1) why don't they just borrow the money to buy their own stock options like everybody else?
2) where the hell is calpers? they'll buy anything.
This is the job description from a 'mock resume' I put togehter. I think this can pass for S-1 bullshit
To design, develop and implement multi-threaded, super-synchronous, web-enabled, server-sided, dynamically generated, platform independent applications that interface with multi-dimensional, multi-user, multi-tasked databases poly-morphed across a dodecahedran 2 gig fabric array accomodating native data transformation mechanisms that utilize satellite linked, infinity tiered, schema to schema fiber network protocols morphed to a enterprise wide distributed storage management system with 100 bronto-byte capacity and robotically enhanced 7 terra-byte Virtual ATL jibber-jabbing across multiple domain portals utilizing X3B2B transverse SCSI using Matrix E1optimization attribute patterns and node to node cellular block 2.5 nano-second cycle times with L2 caching and superscattered binary searches,expand broad-based disaster-recovery capabilities, improve the quantity and quality of digital services available to residents, bridge the digital divide by making services equally accessible by all, expand IT architecture and data-sharing methodologies to maximize the benefits of data-sharing, increase the number of reusable processes for interagency sharing, increase IT workforce flexibility and mobility, design and develop interagency enterprise wide intrusion-detection solutions, harden and titaniumize networks, systems and infrastructures with elevated above cloud computing into transverse worm-hole based technology with networked pulsar/quasar streaming into a vortex type environment along with gamma ray bitty-byte realms chit-chatting with advanced particles sub-divided into square root integers interfacing with Bluetooth cloud busting menu driven scapegoating, with bit bucket navigation options and advanced automated syncronisity related hyper-bolic hearing aid features that incorporate voice recognition patterns.
Two hopes will save these markets from crashing:
1) Bob Hope
2) No Hope
What about Hope and Change?
"Road to Utopia".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Utopia
It's all about EBITDA positive these days, a la 'The Full Faith and Credit of the United States of America!'
And here I thought the market topped out when facebook IPO'd.
No, it's about earnings before all costs and expenses.
Why add more excess supply of shares when the current ones on the market have no buyers?
Complete List of U.S. Retailers Closing Stores, Going, Bankrupt, and Going Out of Business in 2014:
1100 Radio Shack
360 Dots
300 Blockbuster
300 Sears
225 Staples (through 2015)
223 Barnes & Noble (through 2023)
180 Abercrombie & Fitch (by 2015)
175 Aeropostale (“over the next several years”)
170 Jones Group (by mid-2014 )
155 Sbarro
145 Brown Shoes / Famous Footwear
128 GameStop
125 Children’s Place
91 Blockbuster (UK)
80 Family Dollar
76 EE
76 Walgreens
74 McDonald's (Japan)
73 Liquidation World (Big Lots Canada)
63 Build-A-Bear (through 2014)
55 Sprint
50 Kitchen Collection
42 Edwin Watts Golf
42 Fresh & Green's
39 Loehman's
33 Archiver's
33 JCPenney
26 Albertson's
26 Wet Seal
25 Build-A-Bear (through 2015)
25 Yankee One Dollar Stores
20 Barnes & Noble
20 Delhaize
20 Gilly Hicks
20 SONY
18 ALCO
17 Cato
15 Office Depot
12 Target
11 American TV & Appliance
7 Noni B
7 OfficeMax
6 Cord Camera
5 Bi-Lo
5 Macy's
4 Len Druskin
4 Meat House
4 Sprint Gas Stations
3 ACO Hardware
3 Books-A-Million
3 Champps Americana
3 Williams-Sonoma
2 Arden B
2 Best Buy
2 Finger Furniture
2 Haverty’s
2 JMR Chalk Garden
2 Kroger
2 Lolabella Boutique
2 My Favorite Toy Store
2 Nordstrom
2 Powell’s Books
2 Rainbow Foods
http://retailindustry.about.com/od/USRetailStoreClosingInfoFAQs/fl/All-2...
I guess Staples, Office Depot, and Office Max doesn't forecast much of a small business recovery anytime soon.