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...thought he was real, investors in Pixar Animation Studios have learned that reality bites. Pulled down by the collapsing, technology-driven NASDAQ market, Pixar stock fell 5.7% last week, to close at $16.50, light-years from its November high of $49.50, signaling that the almost cartoonish rush of IPO investing is finished...
Fashion-design house Donna Karan International, considered the pick of the recent litter, dropped a stitch or two since its IPO rose from $24 to $28 at its June debut. The stock ended last week...
...IPO market was never as good as it looked for small investors, who invariably got locked out of the initial trading and were left to buy shares after prices jumped. Typically, Wall Street underwriters dole out new shares at the offering price only to big customers (unless you're a U.S. Senator). According to a recent study of 125 companies that went public in 1990, investors who bought in at the original price would have gained 77% on average if they held the stock for up to five years. By contrast, the University of Chicago business-school survey also found...
...experts see signs of exhaustion. Companies have been launching IPOs at the rate of nearly 70 a month in 1996, a total that would have filled an entire year's calendar a decade ago. According to Securities Data Corp., new issues have raised more than $26 billion so far this year, nearly equaling the $29.7 billion that IPOs brought in during all of 1995. "We are entering a transition in the IPO market," says Benedetto. "This is partially due to fatigue, because people are just plumb tired out. I think there will be fewer and fewer deals done in coming...
...chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...