Will Honest s IPO Take More Shine Off SPACs?
Muted SPAC M&A pops could spark a shift back to the traditional, longer IPO process for private companies. Hoffman and Pincus file for 4th SPAC.
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Are Traditional IPOs Back in Favor?
The SPAC boom was partly fueled by the myriad of advantages that private companies were given by choosing SPAC as their path to public markets, to name a few:
- a faster/far less arduous offering process
- ability to sell investors on
future projections
Following
The Honest Company (HNST) highly successful day-1 IPO, it s fair to ask if more companies will follow their patient lead in the traditional IPO process. They were famously an early unicorn and then, infamously, lost their unicorn status in a down financing round. Yet the company ultimately recovered, and now are close to profitability and have a $2B valuation after closing yesterday up +44%.
What s Next for SPACs
With prices, mood, interest, IPO valuation, and deal valuations all coming down, SPAC investors are asking what comes next.
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SPACs joined Tuesday s tech selloff with the average price of a pre-deal SPAC hitting $9.90 that s 10 cents below NAV. It s ironic that in a SPAC market that is much more rational (and tradable) than during peak SPAC earlier this year investors have lost much of their enthusiasm.
Volume across the board has gone down for SPACs with an
average daily volume dropping from 580,000 in February dropping to 104,000 in April. In some ways this is good as the higher volumes were partly a sign of some irrational SPAC exuberance, but at these levels investors will be very worried about efficiently pricing as they get in / out of SPACs.
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