we've talked so much about ipos on the channel over the past 12 months and i don't know if
you've ever thought about this but i was wondering what have been some of the best
and worst ones in terms of their performance so i decided to pull some data together and take a look
at it and share what i found with you now i was curious to see what the best performing ipos were
i have to say i was most interested in seeing what the worst performing ones were because maybe those
are the ones where we have an opportunity to buy low now of course we just have to make sure that
they're not priced low because they're just really bad companies that we want to avoid all together
but before i get into sharing the top 10 best and worst performing ipos over the past 12 months
first i want to welcome you to healthy wealthy and wise i'm kevin and we talk a lot about
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top 10 best and worst performing ipos over the past 12 months now i pulled the data over labor
day weekend so depending on when you watch this it covers basically all the ipos from early september
of last year up to early september of 2021. now i only included traditional ipos and direct listings
i filtered out the spacs because it was just too hard to account for
if they announced mergers or not and how that impacted performance it's just more than i
wanted to get into for this video although that could be something i could look at another time
so without further ado let's look at the top 10 ipo's first and you'll see some familiar names in
the list so as we start with number 10 i want to clarify how the performance or as you can see the
return percentage is calculated so this percentage is actually the difference between the offer price
which again is the ipo price based from the current price now that's not always the best
for retail investors because as retail investors a lot of times we are not able to get in on the ipo
and so to show you where that number could be was the first day close so we had that on the list for
you and some of them are going to be close such as number 10 here which is global e online they
as you can see they opened or they offered their ipo at 25 after the first day of trading so again
this is when retail investors would have had the opportunity it closed to 25.50 so pretty close and
as you can see now since the ipo in may they are now trading at 79.66 which is a return of 218.64
so that's how we'll look through these and we'll see what the differences are
number nine of the best performing ipos is d local limited this traded this summer they offered on
the june 3rd 2021. now as you can see in this one a little bit different offered at 21 this
was the ipo price but the first day closed showed you that it was really a high 32.39
so you may never had the opportunity the return percentage is going to be based on
the offer price so it shows a 223 percent but as a retail investor you might have done better
had you got it on the first day from a global e online versus the d local limited but again just
for the day that's hard to manipulate all this so we'll just look at it as from the ipo price
moving on to number eight we have academy sports plus outdoors ticker aso we talked about these
guys in october of last year so this is another one where not much happened initially they had
the ipo price of 13 and on day one they actually closed down one penny um but currently they're
trading at 44.52 so you have a return of over 242 percent so that's pretty strong number seven on
the list is another company that we talked about on one of our ipo this week episodes and that was
zim integrated shipping services you can see that their ipo happened in january the ipo price was 15
you look at their first day close they were actually 11 and 50 cents and now they're trading
at 54.14 um so the the return from the ipo price is actually 260.93 percent but had you bought it
on day one um where it was trading under that ipo price you would have actually made more than the
260 percent so again in the integrated shipping zim had definitely sort of benefited from some
of the supply issues and the shipping that's out there so prices have gone up all right number six
of the best ipos moving up a company very popular on this channel with many of you with palantir
they talk in at number six like obviously they were a direct listing and not a traditional ipo
by not being an ipo they really didn't have an ipo price but they had a number
that was just sort of where they expected the stock would trade and that was listed at 7.25
now on day one it never traded that low um it traded in that nine to ten dollar range um most of
the day and so that's really where the first day closed we'll look at nine dollars and fifty cents
and the return again from the offer price again a little misleading was 267 percent but if you take
it from the nine dollars and fifty cents is still uh up way big from um where it opened as it's now
was trading over the weekend at 26.64 cents uh the next one on the list is another company that came
out this summer verve therapeutics and again this is not one that we talked about because i
was on my little break at that point but they offered at 19 i was the ipo price the first
they closed was well up over that probably never had the opportunity to get nineteen
dollars currently they're trading at seventy one dollars and thirty nine cents for a return over
two hundred seventy five percent number four on the best list doximity inc another one that came
out in june offer price was twenty six dollars their first day close was fifty three dollars
so again we look at this return percentage it's based on the ipo price the current price is 99
that really isn't even doubled from the first day close again this is not one of those companies we
would have an opportunity to make this big of a return but you still be doing pretty good if you
guys didn't even on the first day number three on the list is esports technology company we talked
about this one again a little misleading because if you look at the offer price it was six dollars
the current price is 33.38 cents that shows a return of over 450 percent which sounds great
however if you did not have an opportunity ipo price like most of us don't
and you got in on the on the first day at the close price you actually would be down so again
this is why this is a little misleading but when you hear people talk about returns um you know
on cnbc or whatever they're always going from the ipo price so again i'm showing you the numbers of
how they calculate it but i'm also giving you the nuances by looking at the first day close
number two greenwich life sciences this company came out in september of last year
they had an offer price of an ipo price of 5 dollars and 75 cents their first day close
was down you can see down to five dollars their current price shows up forty three dollars and
ninety five cents so so if you actually got in the first day you could have got a better price than
the actual um institutional investors who got the at the ipo price the return is a whopping 664.35
all right and then moving on to the top performing ipo over the past 12 months probably not a
surprise for a lot of you guys that have watched this channel because we did talk about them
number one comes in as upstart holdings ticker upst their offer price or the ipo price is 20
currently is trading at 247.29 for a return of over one thousand percent
if you look at even from their first day close even though it was much higher than the ipo price
you still have done really well had you got it on the first day so those are your top ten
best performing ipos over the past 12 months now let's switch it up and talk about the 10 worst
performing ipos over the past 12 months the first one that comes in is zhangmen education
and not 100 never looked into this one this again came out sort of when i was on my little break um
it came out in june the offer price was 11 and 50 cents it had a little bit of a pop on the
first day you can see it came out 16.99 currently trading down to and 3 forty seven cents so that
return is a negative seventy percent and again would actually be a worse return if you trade on
day one versus the ipo price number nine on the worst performing list comes in at context logic
and most of you guys know that as wish again that came out that same week that upstart holdings did
so hopefully if you picked one or the other you did not pick wish and we talked about the
positives and negatives on that episode but they came out in december the offer price was twenty
four dollars and on the first day of closing it actually traded lower than the ipo price at
twenty dollars and five cents currently the stock is trading at seven dollars and twenty four cents
um and again it's been into that six dollar range before so again the return here is um a minus 69
and again that's from the offer price or the ipo price moving on at number eight we have waterdrop
incorporated they had an ipo in may of this year their ipo price was twelve dollars uh their first
day close was nine dollars and seventy cents so again they came down low from the get go
uh currently trading at three dollars and fifty three cents so their return minus seventy percent
and again that's from the ipo price moving on to number seven we have galecto a healthcare company
that came out in 2020 they offered at 15 and they closed at 15 on that first day and as you
can see here the current price is four dollars and forty one cents for a return of a negative
seventy percent at number six we have kiromic biopharma they had an ipo in october of last
year with an offer price of twelve dollars they actually closed down on that first day at 11.50
currently trading at 350. so another in that negative 70 percent return rate and now getting
to the five worst performing ipos in the last 12 months number five boqii holding limited uh they
came out last september they had an ipo price of ten dollars they closed down on day one at seven
dollars and twenty cents and then uh currently trading at two dollars and seventy one cents so
another return of over 70 percent negative next we have graybug vision coming in at number four
they offered last september at the offer price of sixteen dollars their first day close was actually
just a little bit higher than that but currently are trading in the three dollar to four dollar
range um giving us a negative return of seventy five point four four percent
at number three we have inhibikase therapeutics uh they came out around the holidays
uh they had an ipo price of ten dollars first they closed at nine dollars 9.90
currently trading at 241 negative return of over 75 percent number two or the runner-up to
the worst performing ipos in the last 12 months is root incorporated they came out last october
they had an offer price of twenty seven dollars they actually closed at twenty seven dollars
uh their current price though way down to six dollars and one cents gives us a negative seventy
seven point seventy four percent return and then the worst performing ipo of the last 12 months
is 17 education and technology group and they came out last december they had an ipo price of
and fifty cents first they closed pretty close to ten dollars and fifty eight cents
currently trading one dollar and twenty seven cents uh their return as you can see is the worst
it's negative eighty seven point ninety percent uh and one thing you're probably seeing on this
list is we have some companies in 17 education technology group
top of the list uh companies affiliated or from china those stocks as you guys know have gotten
battered over the last few months so as you look at this list of the 10 worst performing
ipos over the past 12 months you just want to take a look at and say is there a reason
why this stock is trading this low and is there opportunity for it to go up you know
is it just because some of them are affiliated with china or from china do business with china
or is it uh something else that just says that the company's not that strong so whatever the case
is at least you have the idea what the 10 worst are maybe you can look a little further into it
there you go both the list of the top 10 best and worst performing ipos of the last 12 months
let me know what you think of the companies on it and if you were surprised by any of them
depending on your comments i might do a follow-up video to dig a little deeper to see where some of
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