Example sentences for: ipos

How can you use “ipos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The executives can then "spin" the shares, which is to say, sell them for a quick profit as the stock's price bounces higher, something most IPOs have tended to do on their opening days of trading.

  • What the fad for foreign IPOs ignores is the massive uncertainty still attached to foreign markets, even as it has led U.S. investors to overlook everything they take for granted at home: regular reports, corporate accountability, open books, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • Where most IPOs this year have been strikingly successful--AMF Bowling, of all things, being just the latest company to see its share price jump--China Telecom's shares fell by 10 percent in the first three days of trading.

  • In the short term, after all, the prices of many American Internet IPOs have been inflated by the fact that there are just too few shares out there to meet demand.

  • But Hambrecht's Dutch-auction strategy has gotten off to a slow start because its first two IPOs, for Ravenswood Winery and Salon.com, were relative busts, at least in the sense that neither company has seen a significant gain over its offering price.


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