The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

The term " unicorn " is used to describe a private company that has a valuation of at least $1 billion. The majority of investors don't have a chance to participate until a unicorn pursues an initial public offering ( IPO ). Just as with public companies, valuations in start-ups can fluctuate.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That seemed to mark the end of Dell as a public company. However, as a private company, it divested its weaker businesses and streamlined its core PC, server, and data-storage businesses. Dell then spun off its stake in VMware, which was acquired by Broadcom last year, and the rest of the company is now worth about $82.5

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Lineage Logistics reportedly plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) next year. That has a growing number of private companies contemplating completing an IPO. Lineage Logistics has reportedly hired advisors to explore the potential of going public in the first half of next year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Panera has confidentially filed to go public, according to sources for the Financial Times. Seasoned investors may be excited, remembering the company's previous track record as a public company. As Panera prepares to possibly go public in 2024, here's what investors can and can't know right now.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the time of our initial public offering in 2013, we were operating just eight markets across four states. In 2023, our geographic footprint continue to grow. We added a new market and a new state to our map with our first closings in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

After a long pause, it looks as though the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) may be heating up again. Even amid tariff uncertainty clouding the near-term picture, several private companies are now on track to go public. That valuation would be massively more expensive than public company peers.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you look at a SPAC versus a SPARC, SPACs, special purpose acquisition company, ultimately, they gather this money through an initial public offering of a shell company with the promise ultimately to acquire a successful public or private company, I'm sorry. Deidre Woollard: Yeah.

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