IPO - initial public offering:
refers to the process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance. Public share issuance allows a company to raise capital from public investors.
(Sourcce: Investopedia)
Content:
Orbis M&A contains information and data on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity, and venture capital deals. The database contains information on completed, pending, withdrawn, announced, and rumoured deals.
Coverage:
European deals from 1997 and forward; global deals from 2001 and forward.
Additional features include news, ranking, and tables about M&A activities.
Requesting data.
To search in more details
Setting the criteria:
We are interested in completed IPOs between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2022 of European companies.
Creating the report.
It is possible to specify the information to be downloaded on the deals or companies involved. Click on “Add/remove columns".
Exporting the report.
IPO Date:
IPO via Screener (Excel add-in) or Deal Screener <DSCREEN> (via web-udgaven):
Open the Screener and then change the Universe to Deals and include Equity as Asset Class. Add IPO as Issue Type and e.g. Norway as Target Market. Then you get a list of IPO results. It is possible to add columns to your report as e.g. ISIN, Ticker and RIC.
IPOs via Equity Offering <IPO> app:
There is an app called Equity Offering <IPO> (Deals Market Overview). This one gives an overview by year, but time series data is more difficult to retrieve this way.
Compustat (North America, Compustat Global)
Search hint:
Choose database > Fundamentals annual > search with CTRL-F: IPO date
WRDS explanation: This item is the date of a company's initial public stock offering. If the date of a company's initial public stock offering is not available, the first trading date in the major exchange is used.
CRSP
According to WRDS support, it should be somewhere under this data item:
Search hint:
CRSP > Stock/ security files > stock header info >
The data items concerned are
Begin of stock data (in output labeled BEGDAT)
End of stock data (in output labeled ENDDAT)
Some additional complications will appear in a few cases when a firm (PERMCO) had multiple securities (PERMNOs). In those cases, you would need to take the oldest BEGDAT and the latest ENDDAT.
Preqin
Search for Private Equity > Deal Type > Exits > IPO & Private Placements
Statista is a good tool if you are looking for a shortcut to an overview and data on the IPO market
If you choose e.g. Topics you find reports on the IPO market
Search for news and articles by limiting your search to Subject search
Search for journal articles using relevant key words as Going public (Securities)