By Peter Bosworth Investors will remember 2019 as the year of the initial public offering (IPO).
It is remarkable how many high-profile companies went public this year. Uber (NYSE: UBER), Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) and Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) are just a few of the nearly 200 companies that submitted IPO paperwork in 2019. Many more are in the pipeline like WeWork, Peloton and Airbnb.
It’s an IPO party, but not everyone is having a good time. Some IPOs are massive successes. Some are massive failures. It can be hard to tell which side a company will come …read more