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The IPO Index reached a two-year high this week. Here are the biggest winners.

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The Renaissance IPO Index has had a positive start to the third quarter, and this week reached its highest level since April 2022. Prior to yesterday’s sell-off, markets rallied from the past week as a cool inflation report and positive...read more

Sector-wide sell-off: IPOs from all but one sector have traded off in recent months

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The IPO market set new records in 2021, but a recent sell-off has walloped new issuers across nearly every sector over the past 90 days and 30 days. The sole sector with positive average returns, energy has produced just two IPOs since 2021, one of which was...read more

2021's biggest IPOs are some of the biggest losers

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In 2021, 27 IPOs raised $1 billion or more, the biggest-ever crop of billion-dollar IPOs in a single year. While the largest issuers have historically outperformed the broader group average, that is not the case for 2021 IPOs. Of last year's 27 billion-dollar...read more

Updated: Renaissance Capital's 2021 US IPO Market Review

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2021 IPO Market Makes History as the Busiest Year in Two Decades The 2021 IPO market was one for the history books. A stunning 397 IPOs raised $142.4 billion in the busiest year by deal count...read more