Institutions said, 'Maybe I'd consider it at $4,' and they try to put a deal together. They have to talk to corporate investors. They say, 'Here's the deal. What do you think?' It's an active negotiation. |
Investors are feeling more bullish about the economy. We're running on very different fundamentals today. |
Is it going to $53.25 or $33.25 in the next move? I would say it would be to the downside, and rightly so. |
It certainly appears that this is a stock Wall Street is going to be looking at very closely, with an optimistic overview. |
It is going to create a more fertile environment for the venture capital deals and the private equity deals. |
It'll do well at the opening. The problem is people just need to understand that these are stocks that are not going to gap up and just continue to run. |
It's a deal that we have liked from the beginning. Anybody who comes knocking on the door of Intel is going to get a lot of media attention and a lot of press. |
It's a summer question mark. I have no idea what's preventing this market from getting off its knees. |
It's an unfortunate way of making a distribution model. |
It's going to be the third crown in the IPO trilogy-tiara for the second quarter. |
Just because a company has the capacity to take on debt does not mean that this is a perfunctory part of coming public. I just don't want to see all these debt-laden companies come out with money going right into the pockets of the private-equity firms, rather than for the benefit of the issuing company. |
ONI is going to be the 800-pound gorilla of the week. |
Our issue here is controlling delivery of voice-based data. This is nothing revolutionary ... but the market is moving from back to perception versus reality and looking at what promise do (the companies) have. |
People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits. |
Personally, I would have liked to have seen it priced at the lower end of the range as an olive branch to the individual investors. But I think they did a superb job pricing it, particularly given the pressures they were under with an offering of this size. |