Chris Nerney

A while ago a reader asked if I had noticed a correlation between “when the parent company of an IPO reaches a peak (during a run in anticipation of the IPO) compared to the actual IPO date of the offspring?” I hadn’t, and wasn’t sure any correlation would have meaning, since the market often doesn’t […]

If the calendars are even close to on target, as many as 10 Internet IPOs could begin trading this week. The offerings includes one bona fide marquee IPO and three from companies that provide investment-related news, research and services to the online trading community. This week’s “name” Internet IPO, of course, is barnesandnoble.com, the online […]

In show business they call it the “walk-out” act. It’s the performer thrown up on stage to entertain stragglers in the crowd after the headliner blows away the house with a dazzling star turn. Through no fault of their own, that’s the role @plan and fashionmall.com are in Friday in the wake of eToys’ monster […]

Believe it or not, another Internet IPO besides eToys began trading on Thursday. Most of the focus among Internet stock watchers this week has been on the online retailer of toys and games, and rightly so. It’s a high-profile play in a glamour Internet sector. (eToys opened at $78 after pricing 8.3 million shares Wednesday […]

Thanks to last month’s dual corrections in the Internet stock market and the recent trend toward less spectacular ‘Net IPO debuts, the common wisdom these days is that investors are no longer willing to blindly hitch their wagon to any company sporting an “e-” prefix or “.com” suffix. This latest bout of alleged sobriety among […]

Many IPO calendar watchers noticed last Wednesday when Internet discount broker onlinetradinginc.com priced its 2 million shares at $7. Now, six days later, the stock has yet to begin trading, leaving some investors puzzled since the vast majority of companies go public either the day of or the day after a pricing. Did someone get […]

There is only one marquee name among the handful of Internet companies expected to begin selling stock this week – eToys, the online etailer whose IPO was derailed for all of two days last month by its purchase of a Web company that sells items for babies. eToys hopes to raise $90.2 million with an […]

If the four Internet IPOs that have priced this week but not yet gone public begin trading Friday–and there’s no reason to expect that they won’t–it will be the single busiest day of 1999 for Net debuts. The quartet includes “Gen Y” Web community site/fashion etailer Alloy Online; online Visa card dispenser NextCard; Internet services […]

So far this month 11 Internet companies have gone public, with another – Web broker onlinetradinginc.com – set to launch on Thursday. It’s a far busier May than was last year’s, when only three Internet companies hit Wall Street. Two of them – Frontline Communications and Verio – are ISPs, each of which has provided […]

Jim Cramer got the debut he wanted for TheStreet.com’s IPO. The question now is whether share prices of the online financial news service co-founded by the voluble hedge-fund manager can defy the recent trend of Internet IPOs that begin like moonshots but end up like Alan Shepherd’s sub-orbital hop in 1962 – straight up and […]

Many small investors often express frustration that they can’t get in early on hot Internet IPOs. Lacking the clout and connections of large institutional investors and underwriter insiders, the average individual investor often must wait weeks or months before a soaring Internet stock re-enters the atmosphere. Well, based on last week’s Internet IPOs, there’s not […]

Online job site CareerBuilder’s pending IPO comes hot on the heels of a freshly minted strategic partnership with the biggest name in high-tech – Microsoft. The deal with Microsoft could give the CareerBuilder initial public offering an added boost when it comes out (possibly any day now) and may give the company a valuable, long-term […]