initial public offering

noun

: the first sale of a company's stock to the public

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The Harvard graduate was an early team member of Garena (Shopee), an e-commerce platform based in Singapore, which later became Sea Ltd. and had an initial public offering for $1 billion. Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024 Reuters — Shares of Hyundai Motor India dropped as much as 6% in their market debut on Tuesday, after a tepid response from retail investors to the pricing of the country’s largest ever initial public offering. Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024 Tesla went public on June 29, 2010, with an initial public offering (IPO) price of $17 per share, raising over $226 million. Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 The company exceeded expectations during its initial public offering of stock in 2021, ending its first day of trading valued at nearly $88 billion. Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for initial public offering 

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