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Updated: Renaissance Capital's 2022 US IPO Market Review

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The IPO Market Flips from Boom to Bust in 2022 After the prior year’s record activity, the 2022 US IPO market ground to a halt as the war in Ukraine, a valuation correction in high-multiple...read more

Nearly 90% of 2022's large IPOs are trading above issue

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While market conditions are still keeping the IPO window mostly closed, the year's large issuers are finding support, especially over the past few months. Excluding high-flying outlier HKD, just 15 IPOs have raised $100 million or more in 2022, and 13 (87%)...read more

2022's energy and healthcare IPOs currently average solid returns amid challenging conditions

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IPO activity is still muted heading into the final stretch of 2022, weighed down by poor trading from new issuers. Despite challenging current market conditions, the energy and healthcare sectors have delivered solid trading recently, and are the only two...read more

Biotech IPOs struggle to tread water amid challenging market conditions

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Despite weak trading in the biotech sector, another drug developer is preparing to take on a challenging IPO market. Norovirus vaccine developer HilleVax (HLVX) plans to raise $175 million this week in the first major biotech IPO of the 2Q. ...read more