Chris Nerney

It was another busy week for Internet IPOs, with five going out through Thursday, and perhaps one or two more today. (News flash: AdForce, NetObjects and Media Metrix have priced today.) This follows a week in which five other Internet companies went public. With a crammed pipeline, don’t expect any letup soon, soft market or […]

Silknet Software defied a slump in Internet IPO debuts Wednesday by finishing its first day of trading at $35.13, a healthy 134% increase over its offer price of $15. But another Internet offering – a faux Internet company, to be honest – got hammered, becoming only the second ‘Net IPO in 1999 to close its […]

It’s been a fast fall for Amazon.com share prices in the past week or so. Since April 23 the online retailer has seen its stock nosedive from $210.13 – its all-time high closing price – to $143 when Tuesday’s trading session ended. That’s $67.13, or 32% of the stock’s value. But the company experienced an […]

Last month’s record number of Internet IPOs demonstrates that interest in new cyber stocks remain at an all-time high. But while the 17 Internet IPOs released in April easily eclipsed the previous record of 13 set just one month before – how’s that for momentum? – the average percentage gain in the first-day closing price […]

Like a wily boxer closing with a flurry to steal a round, April set a record for Internet IPOs, with 17 companies debuting on Wall Street, topping the 13 that went out in March. But it took a big finish, as five Internet companies – Razorfish, Mpath Interactive, Marimba, Town Pages Net.com and AppliedTheory – […]

Whatever qualms Amazon.com stirred in the market Thursday after it warned of deepening losses in the next two years appear to have been short-lived. After dropping 13% to $168.25 a share at Thursday’s market close, the online retailer opened trading Friday morning at $177. While that figure is still well under Wednesday’s closing price of […]

Online live community site and technology provider Mpath Interactive isn’t playing around with its IPO. The company, best-known for its interactive games site, priced Wednesday at $18 per share, far above the original $10-$12 range set in February. Indeed, Mpath twice upped its pricing range this week alone, to $12-$14 on Tuesday and $14-$16 on […]

In the first two months of this year, 14 Internet companies launched IPOs. Several soared into the stratosphere, and all but one finished first-day trading above the offer price. These 14 stocks currently are included in our IPODEX, which tracks the aftermarket performance of recent Internet public offerings. Today we’ll look at where these stocks […]

The battle of the online bookstores is about to begin. Any day now barnesandnoble.com will make an initial public offering of stock intended to provide a $200 million war chest for its quest to unseat Amazon.com as the king of Internet etailers. It is a task even more daunting than it was last Sept. 21, […]

If this week’s pricing calendar holds up, April will finish with a shower of Internet IPOs as at least eight Internet companies are slated to go public by the close of trading on Friday. Some I’ve already profiled; others I’ll get to in the next few days. Here’s a quick look at who’s sitting on […]

Many industry observers were stunned by Log On America’s (LOA) sizzling public debut on Thursday. Shares of the Rhode Island-based ISP (Nasdaq: LOAX) closed at $35 after opening late in the day at $29.69. LOA and lead underwriter Dirks & Co. offered 2.2 million shares at $10 each, with plans to raise $68 million. When […]

If the Internet stocks roller-coaster ride that began April 14 is scaring companies away from what is being portrayed as an overcrowded IPO market, I’m seeing little evidence of it. Sure, eToys announcement that it was delaying its any-day-now public offering of 8.2 million shares at $10-$12 each came on Tuesday, just one day after […]