This December Is Set To Make History...

IPOs on U.S. exchanges have already raised a record $156 billion this year, and there are still a few weeks left of December to make even more. Airbnb and DoorDash are set to make their public debuts this week, and if all goes well and each IPO is priced at the top of its price range, both companies will make a combined ~$6.2 billion. IPOs on U.S. exchanges have already raised a record $156 billion this year, and there are still a few weeks left of December to make even more. Airbnb and DoorDash are set to make their public debuts this week, and if all goes well and each IPO is priced at the top of its price range, both companies will make a combined ~$6.2 billion. [Wealth Daily logo] This December Is Set To Make History... [Monica Savaglia Photo] By [Monica Savaglia]( Written Dec 08, 2020 The end of the year is usually quiet for the IPO market, but this year has been far from normal. Even Bloomberg notes, “December is set to be the busiest year-end on record for initial public offerings in the U.S.” As I write this, 13 companies expect to go public this week. Among those 13 are food-delivery company DoorDash and vacation-rental company Airbnb. If you’ve been following along here at Wealth Daily, then you’re aware that I’ve discussed both of these companies over the last month. If you haven’t, you can read those articles by browsing Wealth Daily’s archive [here.]( DoorDash is expected to go public on the NYSE this Wednesday, December 9 under the ticker symbol “DASH.” DoorDash increased its IPO price range this week. At this point, it is $90–$95 per share. Last week, I wrote that the company had a price range of $75–$85 per share, so this is a large jump for an already large target price. We likely won’t know the exact share price until its IPO, but sometimes a company and its underwriters announce their decision the night before the market debut. 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With demand for food delivery still high, you would think that the company could continue earning a profit, so some hesitation has emerged around DoorDash's IPO. Ahead of this market debut, CtW Investment Group wrote a letter to the delivery company’s board of directors on Monday: Without much more detail concerning, and ideally full remediation of, its flawed internal controls, we cannot avoid concluding that DoorDash is not ready for the increased scrutiny and accountability that are inherent in a public market listing. This isn’t the only warning from experts. David Trainer, CEO of the research firm New Constructs, critiqued DoorDash's IPO, saying: This IPO reminds us of WeWork’s attempted IPO, which we called "The Most Ridiculous IPO of 2019," because DoorDash’s businesses is similarly disadvantaged... To justify a $25 billion valuation, the company needs to grow its share of global food delivery app market to 56% from ~16% over the trailing twelve months (TTM) while also raising margins from -12% to 8% in an intensely competitive business. Clearly, DoorDash has some issues — like the future of the food-delivery business model. And while business picked up this year because of the pandemic, there is no guarantee that demand will always be there. Then there's the question of the legality of the company continuing to classify its dashers as contractors and not employees. Tomorrow we will see how receptive the market is of a company like DoorDash. Is Airbnb Expecting Too Much? Airbnb is expected to go public on the Nasdaq this Thursday, December 10 under the ticker symbol “ABNB.” Just like DoorDash, Airbnb has boosted its proposed IPO price range. Last week, we got word that the company anticipated a target price of $44–$50 per share. However, Airbnb has increased that to $56–$60 per share. That would give the company a valuation somewhere near $42 billion — $18 billion more than it was worth during a private fundraising round in April. At the upper end of that new price target, Airbnb would raise about $3.1 billion, making it one of the largest U.S. IPOs of 2020. [This Tech Beat COVID-19 in China and Korea (Now Here)]( How did China and Korea manage to contain COVID-19... even while the rest of the world has failed? It has to do with a technology that East Asian countries deployed to fight SARS. Experts credit it for why these countries halted the pandemic so quickly. That’s why Dr. Fauci says it merits “serious consideration” in America... Now it’s here... And one AMERICAN tech company owns all 100 patents. [Click here for the full story.]( An increase in price target can imply a few things, but most often, it implies that the offering is being well-received among investors and there is high demand for shares. Both Airbnb and DoorDash expected to go public before the COVID-19 pandemic but chose to hold off. Now that the IPO market (and markets in general) are more receptive, these companies are rushing to make their public debuts. According to data from Bloomberg, IPOs on U.S. exchanges have already raised a record $156 billion this year. That type of figure gives companies contemplating going public even more reason to do so before the year ends. DoorDash and Airbnb aren’t the only companies that considered this. This month, we’re expecting market debuts from Affirm Holdings, which lets online shoppers pay for purchases in installments, and Roblox Corp., a videogame company. These are also highly anticipated IPOs and could attain valuations in the tens of billions of dollars with their listings. Karen Snow, head of East Coast listings at Nasdaq Inc., had this to say about what’s going on with the IPO market in December: This group of companies that you have coming out now maybe weren’t thought of initially as benefiting, but they’ve been able to show very strong results despite the coronavirus. December 2020 is going to be a month to remember. Buckle up. To stay up to date on similar [IPOs]( from companies like DoorDash, Airbnb, and Upstart, [click here.]( You’ll gain access to research and news on [the IPO market and upcoming IPOs.]( Until next time, [Monica Savaglia Signature Park Avenue Digest] Monica Savaglia --------------------------------------------------------------- How to Take Advantage of TRUMP’S FINAL ORDER Folks, it’ll be January before you know it, and that means Trump’s time in the Oval Office is running out. But lucky for you, he’s squeezing in one last executive order, and it could make you rich. 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