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Archive for the 'IPO$' Category

These United States of America…

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

We’re quite sure that all of those Congressmen who were whining last week during the House Financial Services hearing with the SEC about America losing its competitive edge when it came to financial markets, aren’t checking IPO Home on a regular basis. Yesterday, eight companies, including a major hedge fund and a risky start-up run [...]

Separated at birth?

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Maybe it’s just a weird coincidence, but Hertz (HTZ) and Blackstone Group (BX), which isn’t public yet, seem to be on the same filing schedule. Earlier Monday, both filed amended S-1s (Hertz’s is here and Blackstone’s is here), updating filings the two companies had each made on May 21. A quick skim of Hertz’s amended [...]

A risk factor worthy of a bumper sticker?

Monday, June 4th, 2007

When it comes to risk factors, most companies present a laundry list that runs the gamut from garden variety lawsuits to the sky falling. But the 10-K filed by Stanley Inc. (SXE) late Friday included something that, given the news that 14 more U.S. soldiers had been killed this past weekend, seems more than hypothetical. [...]

Read all about it…

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

We all know the newspaper industry is in trouble, right? We see the headlines everyday, read the tales of woe, including this one in the premier issue of Portfolio and the cover story that I wrote in the current issue of Worth (not available online — sorry) with Mark Cuban’s thoughts on reviving newspapers. So [...]

Above it all…

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Is there any other news other than the Blackstone IPO this morning? Or as the folks at PE Week write (fueled by a few Red Stripes, which seems an odd choice for getting through a dense S-1) “Blackstone, Blackstone, Blackstone”.  Several footnoted regulars who pored through the filing (presumably without the help of Red Stripe) [...]