TOST News

2022 IPO activity has been weighed down by poor returns and volatility, grinding to a halt in late February. Many of the best-performing IPOs in recent years have been hit hardest by the recent sell-off. Over two thirds of IPOs since 2019 (530 of 775) are down 50% or more from their 52-week highs. Now that the sky-high prices of last year’s IPO boom have come back down to...read more

IPO Market Posts Another Record Quarter in a Record Year In the third quarter of 2021, 94 IPOs raised $27.6 billion, marking the busiest 3Q by deal count since 2000. Following an explosive second quarter, activity remained brisk before tapering off in the typically-slow month of August, and coming back strong after...read more

It was another busy week for the fall IPO market as 13 IPOs raised $4.6 billion led by restaurant payment processor Toast (TOST), which jumped 56% in its debut. Six SPACs also went public, and one IPO postponed: Canadian consumer products company Knowlton Development (KDC). The pipeline was fairly active, with seven IPOs and five SPACs...read more

Toast, which provides mobile and digital payment processing and other services for restaurants, raised $870 million by offering 21.7 million shares at $40, above the upwardly revised range of $34 to $36. The company originally planned to offer its shares at $30 to $33, before raising the range on Monday. Toast is a cloud-based, end-to-end technology solution for restaurants...read more