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bombcartoday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

This is the real note - if the company was truly valuable, they wouldn't IPO, they'd get slurped up by someone big.

Modern IPOs are mainly dumping on retail and index investors.


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antilopertoday at 4:32 PM

Index investors aren't exposed to IPOs, since the common indexes (SPX etc) don't include IPOs (and if you invest in a YOLO index that does, that's on you).

Also:

> The US led a sharp rebound, driven by a surge in IPO filings and strong post-listing returns following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut.

https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/ipo/trends

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