are eyeing a sun bump or a public offerings this year god has more that s right twenty eighteen is shaping up to get really exciting for investors lots of companies plan to go public and let s say the i.p.o. market may total two hundred ninety billion us dollars this year let s have a quick look at what s on offer first and foremost we could see the largest i.p.o. in history worth up to one hundred billion dollars if saudi arabian all mammals co goes ahead with its plans to self only five percent of its shares on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing its somewhat less than an i.p.o. it s a direct listing avoiding the illusion of already existing shares spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got a billion dollar injection from google parent alpha bit but it is expected to go
some bumper public offerings this year and twenty eight thousand one hundred has more you can say there twenty eighteen is shaping up to get really exciting for investors lots of companies plan to go public analysts say the market for initial public offering so i.p.o. s that s company issuing shares for the first time a total of two hundred ninety billion dollars this year alone let s have a look at what s on offer first and foremost we could see the largest i.p.o. in history worth up to one hundred billion dollars if saudi arabian oil co goes ahead with its plan to sell only five percent of its says on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing somewhat less than an i.p.o. it s a direct listing they re looking for avoiding dilution of already existing share spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got
aramco goes ahead with its plan to sell only five percent of its shares on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing a somewhat less than an i.p.o. it s a direct listing avoiding dilution of already existing share spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got a billion dollar injection from google parent company alpha bit but it s expected to go public at the end of the year to us cloud storage heavyweight dropbox is also expected to make its initial public offering in spring and there s one german i.p.o. of the horizon to siemens medical unit health than is raised at least five billion euros in march a little earlier i spoke to cry girl i m from london and i asked him which i p o has captured his attention of in the one that stands out from a house to be saudi aramco due to the sheer size of the our i.p.o. itself is going to value the complete around two trillion dollars so the sheer size