plural IPOs
: an initial public offering of a company's stock

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Join 3 others in the comments View Comments After Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma criticized China’s banks and financial regulators at a speech in November 2020, Ant Group, a financial affiliate of Alibaba also founded by Ma, was forced to pull its $37 billion IPO at the last minute. Juliana Liu, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024 Since Narasimhan’s arrival at the helm in 2018, the group has separated from its subsidiary Alcon, which specialises in ophthalmology, listing it separately, and from Sandoz, which specialises in generic medicines, in 2023, also through an IPO. Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2024 By comparison, investors valued Chipotle at about $4 million per restaurant when the same amount of time had passed since its January 2006 IPO (the same year Cava's original three founders decided to launch their first restaurant). Greg McKenna, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024 The company completed its IPO on March 30, 2023, raising $60,000,000 from the sale of 6,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit, with an additional $3,700,000 from the sale of 370,000 private placement units. Quartz Bot, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for IPO 

Word History

Etymology

initial public offering

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of IPO was in 1976

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“IPO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/IPO. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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: an initial public offering of a company's stock
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