How are IPO stocks distributed a who gets them

All kinds of investors have diligently tried to get IPO stocks because of the spectacular returns that other IPOs have got in short term periods. Therefore, if an individual investor has trouble to buy these stocks when issued . . . Who buys them?

The issuing company distributes a portion of these IPOs to its friends and members of the family. The underwriter also assigns some stocks to privileged investors such as group investors and mutual funds investors. Smaller portions are offered to rich investors from brokerage firms. The average small investor is in a low position in the institutional priority column.

There are no rules or regulations that can decide over the process of assignments. The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) forbids investment banks from selling IPO stocks to high executives that are willing to run future business with investment banks (underwriters). This norm could have been violated when Salomon Smith Barney assigned attractive IPO stocks to Worldcom executives as a return to his future banking investments business.     

New Issues of Securities: New issues of securities are produced when foreign companies listed in the markets try to get new capital through issuing more stocks. The procedure to issue new public stocks is similar to IPOs. Before the values are sold to the public have to be registered and approved by the SEC.

The prospect or brochure called shelf registration is less detailed than that from the IPO because the company has already turned in -besides their trimester and annual statements and the initial report- enough reports to SEC

Issuing prices are almost the same as the company’s actual stocks market price, so almost no tune up is needed at this point between investing bankers and the company.

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