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Weekly market reads and company-level IPO stories from deal terms, demand signals, underwriting, financial texture, and current listing context.

Quarterly Review · April 1, 2026 – June 30, 2026

Healthcare Took the Quarter; Tech Took the Dollars

Healthcare led Q2 IPO performance while tech dominated proceeds

Q2's clearest shift was that healthcare stopped being just a filing story and started leading the tape. In the quarter's 44 traded IPOs, healthcare and biotech produced 12 deals with average 17.4% first-day and 13.8%...

Weekly Review · June 29, 2026 – July 5, 2026

Bending Spoons Led a Selective IPO Week

Selective buyers backed Bending Spoons, Lime, ITG and Sinda while the lower end stayed stuck

The week did not reopen the IPO market in any broad sense. It showed that buyers will still fund size, recognizable sponsors, and straightforward use-of-proceeds stories, but they are not extending that benefit far down...

Weekly Review · June 22, 2026 – June 28, 2026

DPC Clears, Lime Looms, and the IPO Calendar Still Has to Earn It

DPC priced and traded; Lime, ITG, and CopperTech still need to clear

DPC was the week’s only clean handoff from filing work to public trading. Doncasters launched at $28 to $32, then priced an upsized 27,858,585-share IPO at $33 and raised about $919.3 million before expenses. The same...

Weekly Review · May 18, 2026 – May 24, 2026

Lincoln Clears, the Rest of the Calendar Stays in Filing Mode

Lincoln broke through; the rest of the IPO week stayed in amendment mode

Lincoln International priced its IPO on May 19 (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lincoln-international-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering-302776889.html), and by the next day’s NYSE debut...

Weekly Review · April 20, 2026 – April 26, 2026

Weekly IPO Review: X-Energy Prices, Pershing Tests the Tape

X-Energy priced and popped. Pershing still set the week's agenda.

X-Energy broke the week open by doing the one thing most of the calendar still has not done: price cleanly and trade well. The company priced 44,254,659 shares at $23, above the $16 to $19 range in its April 20 S-1/A,...

Weekly Review · April 13, 2026 – April 19, 2026

IPO Week: The Large-Cap Window Reopened, Selectively

IPO week: Madison Air, Arxis and Kailera reopen the size window

The week of April 13 gave the IPO market a real size test. Madison Air, Arxis, Kailera, AEVEX and Alamar all crossed from filing work into priced offerings, raising roughly $4.5 billion before overallotments. That is...

Weekly Review · March 30, 2026 – April 5, 2026

HMH Carries a Thin IPO Week Across the Line

HMH prices; Elmet and Churchill refill the IPO queue

HMH was the week’s only real handoff from filing work to public trading. The offshore drilling equipment supplier priced 10.52 million Class A shares at $20, inside its $19 to $22 range, raised $210.4 million in gross...