Deals
Owning IPOs Has Been Clunker of a Trade Amid Raging Bull Market
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Getting fancy didn’t pay off in stocks this decade. Investors who looked to newly public companies to enhance their gains instead found themselves trailing the red-hot market, often by a lot.
History’s longest-running bull market nonetheless has been a boon for issuers, who took advantage of calm conditions that fueled investor appetite for deal activity.