These Are The Top 10 IPOs To Watch For 2014
GE Consumer Lending: The Connecticut based Conglomerate is planning to cut a piece of the pie in public offering of its North American retail-lending unit that is believed to be valued at $20 billion. CFO Keith Sherin of GE has been named as the CEO of the GE Consumer Lending unit by the CEO of the GE Company.
This moved is basically done so that GE will be known as a complete industrial conglomerate and not a mix of half-bank and half-industrial companies. The shares of the company will be distributed across the two units so shareholders will have a piece of the pie on both sides. This is expected to be done by the end of this year or early 2015.
Univision: Univision is a Spanish language broadcaster that is a part of the Univision Communications that caters to the American public. This company was taken private back in 2007 by Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, TPG Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners. It was take for $12 billion.
The issue though is that speculation of the company filing for an IPO was started back in 2013, there has been no substantial step taken and the value of the company may be lower than it was previously. All these issues pose a threat for a good investment platform.
Virtu Financial: The Company was started by Vincent Viola, which is a market maker and liquidity provider to the financial markets worldwide. They use technology to provide buyers and sellers’ quotation for equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, and other securities on various exchanges, markets, and liquidity pools.
The company boasts of having made profit everyday for the past five years since its start except for one day, that is, out of 1278 days 1277 days they made profits. They have filed for IPO at the start of this year and Wall Street has termed it as a profitable company that can make over $400 million in the next calendar year. The company is valued at over $2 billion.
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