Large IPOs and Record IPO Calendars Can be Warning Signs of Rough Times Ahead for Stock Market

IPO Calendars Can be Warning Signs of Rough Times Ahead for Stock Market.  Large IPOs typically occur during times when stocks are fashionable to own.   Large IPO’s with large one day pops are synonymous with a high-risk stock market environment fueled by overly optimistic investors.

The chart below from www.sentimentrader.com shows big market drops after 2000 and 2007 and flat performance following 2014 after big IPOs had big first-day jumps  Lyft’s recent $2.2 billion offering qualified in size but not in terms of first-day  performance. On the other hand Lyft had no trouble raising a huge $2.2 billion from investors who ignored the fact that it went public with the largest EBIDTA loss for any IPO ever. It also should be noted that record IPO calendars also can be a sign of too much market exuberance. Renaissance Capital projects 2019 will have a huge IPO calendar amounting to over $100-plus billion. That’s similar to previous record years of 2000, 2007 and 2014. And we already have discussed what happened back then.

Large IPOs and Record IPO Calendars Can be Warning Signs of Rough Times Ahead for Stock Market
Large IPOs and Record IPO Calendars Can be Warning Signs of Rough Times Ahead for Stock Market

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