Friday, January 31, 2014

Regarding NEW IPOS

 
Scheduled U.S. IPOs - Week of 02/03/2014
Argos Therapeutics (ARGS) - Durham, NC
Deal Size: $60 mil Price Range: $13.00 - $15.00 Shares Filed: 4,250,000
Lead Underwriter: Piper Jaffray
Developing immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and HIV.
 
Auspex Pharmaceuticals (ASPX) - San Diego, CA
Deal Size: $61 mil Price Range: $10.00 - $12.00 Shares Filed: 5,500,000
Lead Underwriter: Stifel
Clinical-stage biotech developing treatments for orphan diseases.
 
Biocept (BIOC) - San Diego, CA
Deal Size: $20 mil Price Range: $10.00 - $12.00 Shares Filed: 1,818,181
Lead Underwriter: Aegis Capital Corp.
Develops and markets cancer diagnostic tests.
 
Continental Building Products (CBPX) - Reston, VA
Deal Size: $225 mil Price Range: $16.00 - $18.00 Shares Filed: 13,236,000
Lead Underwriter: Citi
Manufactures and sells drywall in the eastern US and Canada.
 
Egalet (EGLT) - Malvern, PA
Deal Size: $42 mil Price Range: $11.00 - $13.00 Shares Filed: 3,500,000
Lead Underwriter: Stifel
Developing abuse-deterrent oral products for the treatment of pain.
 
Eleven Biotherapeutics (EBIO) - Cambridge, MA
Deal Size: $60 mil Price Range: $13.00 - $15.00 Shares Filed: 4,300,000
Lead Underwriter: Citi
Clinical-stage biotech developing protein therapeutics to treat eye diseases.
 
Genocea Biosciences (GNCA) - Cambridge, MA
Deal Size: $72 mil Price Range: $12.00 - $14.00 Shares Filed: 5,500,000
Lead Underwriter: Citi
Develops novel vaccines for infectious diseases through T cell immune responses.
 
GeoPark (GPRK) - Santiago, Chile
Deal Size: $180 mil Price Range: $8.00 - $10.00 Shares Filed: 20,000,000
Lead Underwriter: J.P. Morgan
Oil and natural gas E&P operating in Chile, Colombia and Brazil.
 
Ladder Capital (LADR) - New York, NY
Deal Size: $225 mil Price Range: $16.00 - $18.00 Shares Filed: 13,250,000
Lead Underwriter: Deutsche Bank
Commercial real estate mortgage origination and finance company.
 
NephroGenex (NRX) - Research Triangle Park, NC
Deal Size: $40 mil Price Range: $12.00 - $14.00 Shares Filed: 3,100,000
Lead Underwriter: Aegis Capital Corp.
Clinical-stage biotech developing treatments for kidney disease.
 
Revance Therapeutics (RVNC) - Newark, CA
Deal Size: $75 mil Price Range: $14.00 - $16.00 Shares Filed: 5,000,000
Lead Underwriter: Cowen & Company
Clinical-stage biotech developing enhanced formulations of botulinum toxin (Botox).
 
uniQure (QURE) - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deal Size: $64 mil Price Range: $13.00 - $15.00 Shares Filed: 4,600,000
Lead Underwriter: Jefferies & Co.
Develops gene therapies for the treatment of orphan diseases.
 
 
IPO Commentary
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, which is developing RNAi therapeutics for the treatment of rare liver disease and cancer, kicked off a... more
Last year saw the most biotech IPO activity in over a decade, both in number of deals (37) and proceeds ($2.7B). Yet when the Q4 experienced a 50% decline in the number of these IPOs over the Q3, and especially when 6 deal... more
IPO Performance
 
The FTSE Renaissance IPO Index has returned 3.7% so far this year, compared to-2.9% for the S&P 500.
 
 
IPO Activity
 
There have been 17 IPOs priced so far this year,
+42% change from last year.

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