As you mentioned, shares popped around 50 when compared to the socalled Reference Price of 26 a share. But no investigator actually made a quick oneday gain of 50 , as they might have in an initial public offering. In fact, the most any Public Market investor would have made buying and selling slacks shares yesterday is about a 9 return thats because the Reference Price is more of an arbitrary one set by the Financial Advisers in the nyse and a direct listing, so no shares were actually sold at that level. The shares opened at 378d 38. 5 rose as high as 42 and ended at 38. 62 to many, thats the beauty of the direct listing strategy versus the more traditional ipo. Theres no favoritism on the part of the underwriters and theres no money left on the table, because slack didnt raise capital in the first place. Overall, slacks debut was viewed largely as a success. And further evidence that the direct listing model works there were no crazy price swings Trading Volume was manageable, and t
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