Posted by Rick Stine
on November 30, 2010
Currencies,
Forex,
Initial Public Offerings,
Stock Market,
Wall Street /
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The FX market is hot. About $4 trillion of currencies are traded every day – a number seen hitting $10 trillion in 10 years. Banks around the world are bulking up their trading desks. And Mrs. Watanabe (the proverbial Japanese housewife who day trades while her husband is at work) continues to do more business than ever all over the world.
So, it is with that backdrop that two of the platforms that cater to the retail investor are looking to go public. Gain Capital, which runs the Forex.com website, is hoping to sell 11 million shares for a maximum $190 million, while FXCM is hoping to sell 15 million shares from $13 to $15.
And while there is no question that FX is hot, investors may approach these IPOs with a little caution.
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Tags: Forex.com, FX, FX Market, FXCM, Gain Capital, Initial Public Offering, IPO, Merrill Lynch, Mrs. Watanabe, Rick Stine, Selling Shareholders
There was probably a lot of high-fiving and hand clapping when the Tesla Motors IPO was priced and closed the day $6.89 higher – a remarkable feat for an IPO these days and especially given how poorly the stock market in general performed.
So, maybe I am taking the glass half full approach, but, it seems to me the underwriters really mispriced it and left a lot of money on the table. The company itself sold 11.88 million shares. If the deal had been priced closer to where it closed rather than the original $17 price this morning, the company (a novel electric car maker) would have taken in an additional $81 million or so in proceeds. And for the selling shareholders? They would have pocketed nearly $10 million more.
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Tags: Goldman Sachs, Initial Public Offering, IPO, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Proceeds, Rick Stine, Selling Shareholders, Tesla Motors, Underwriters
