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Jan 28, 2025

Smithfield Foods raises $522M in first day on Nasdaq

Smithfield Foods officials rang the opening bell Tuesday at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, as the packaged meat and fresh pork giant launched its initial public offering of 26 million stock shares at $20 per share on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, raising $522 million. The offering consists of 13,043,479 shares of common […]

Photo of a brick sign that reads Smithfield next to a road.
Jan 6, 2025

Smithfield Foods files for IPO

Virginia’s Smithfield Foods announced Monday it has filed a registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering. This is the first step toward the pork and packaged meats giant’s plan of selling common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SFD. In November 2024, Smithfield‘s […]

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Sep 17, 2024

Chain Bridge Bancorp plans to go public

Chain Bridge Bancorp, the McLean holding company for Chain Bridge Bank, National Association, is planning to go public. On Friday, the company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock. The number of shares and price range for the IPO have not […]

BlackSky CEO Brian E. O’Toole (center) and other company executives celebrate their company’s Sept. 10 initial public offering by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange a few days later. Photo courtesy BlackSky Technology Inc.
Oct 28, 2021

SPAC-ulative finance

One of the hottest investment tools in the past year and a half has imploded. But don’t give up on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs as these peculiar financial structures are called, industry experts say. Also called blank-check companies, SPACs are here to stay, but not necessarily at the high-flying levels of 2020 and […]

Oct 28, 2021

Fluence launches IPO that could raise $868M

Fluence Energy Inc., an Arlington-based energy storage and digital application company owned by Siemens and AES Corp., launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 31 million shares of Class A common stock Thursday at $28 per share. The company is trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “FLNC.” As of 3:55 […]

Sep 29, 2021

Fluence files plans for IPO

Fluence Energy Inc., an Arlington-based energy storage and digital application company owned by Siemens and AES Corp., announced this week it has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares and price range for the proposed offering have not […]

Sep 21, 2021

Genworth completes IPO for mortgage insurance subsidiary

Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. completed the once-delayed initial public offering of its mortgage insurance subsidiary, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Enact Holdings Inc., it announced Monday. Between the IPO and a private sale of shares, Genworth received aggregate net proceeds of about $535 million after underwriters’ fees but before other expenses. Genwort[...]

Sep 13, 2021

Genworth launches IPO for mortgage insurance subsidiary

Nearly five months after it was first announced, Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. on Monday launched an initial public offering for its private mortgage insurance subsidiary, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Enact Holdings Inc. Genworth Holdings Inc. (GHI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, is offering 13.31 million shares of common stock in […]

May 11, 2021

Reston-based Bowman Consulting Group raises $51.7M in IPO

Reston-based civil engineering company Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. has raised $51.73 million in its initial public offering that closed Tuesday, selling 3.69 million shares at $14 a share since Friday. Sold under the symbol BWMN on the Nasdaq Global Market, shares traded between $12.60 and $14.90 as of Tuesday afternoon. After closing its sale of […]

Apr 19, 2021

Genworth files for mortgage insurance biz IPO

Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday for a proposed initial public offering of the company’s mortgage insurance business. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC will serve as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering of Genworth Mortgage Holdings Inc. (GMHI), a […]

Mar 25, 2021

Leonardo DRS pushes pause on IPO

Arlington-based Leonardo DRS Inc., a subsidiary of Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA, is hitting the brakes on its initial public offering, its parent company announced Wednesday. No future IPO date was announced. The company attributed its decision to “adverse market conditions” that “did not allow an adequate valuation of DRS,” according to a news release. […[...]

Mar 1, 2021

Leonardo DRS files IPO registration

The Italian federal defense contractor Leonardo announced Friday it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an planned initial public offering (IPO) of its U.S. subsidiary, Arlington-based Leonardo DRS. The $2.54 billion IPO could take place in March, according to reports from Reuters. Leonardo did not release the official amount […]

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