Small Company Initial Public Offerings: September 1983
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Offering
O-T-C Size Price
sym. Company Business/product ($ mil.)
AMFD A&M Food Services Restaurant franchisee 7.15 6.50
AGSI Advanced Genetic Mfr. biotech. products 11.25 15.00
AMCAR Ambulatory Medical Emergency clinics 3.13 6.25
(a) American Network Telecommun. svcs. 1.00 2.00 c
AMPH American Physicians Management services 6.88 6.25
AMPD Ampad Mfr. paper products 14.00 20.00
ATCO Atcor Mfr. steel tubing 10.50 14.00
ATLF Altantic Financial S&L associations 28.59 11.75
Federal
BLED Ballard Medical Dispos. med. prods. 4.80 6.00
BIND Bindley Western Pharmaceutical 30.00 20.00
Industries products
BKWS BKW Turnkey computer sys. 5.00 5.00
CFCC Carteret Savings S&L association 35.87 9.50
CELL Cell Products Fermentation products 8.00 8.00
CELPU Cellular Products Mfr. lymphokine 2.03 2.25 d
CLNDU Clinical Diagnostics Mkt. diagnostic device 2.30 2.00 c
COMW Commonwealth S&L S&L association 7.20 12.00
CUCD Comp-U-Card Merch. databases 25.63 20.50
CHSI Cont'l Healthcare Hospital turnkey sys. 5.78 5.75
BUGS Cooper Biomedical Genetic engineering 30.25 11.00
CULP Culp Mfr. upholstery fabric 12.75 12.75
DSCC Datasouth Computer Mfr. serial dot printers 13.20 12.00
EATO Eaton Financial Leases office equip. 4.52 8.00
EQUA Equatorial Mfr. earth stations 30.80 14.00
Communications
FHSY Family Health System Dental & medical ctrs. 3.00 7.50
FILTZ Filtertek Mfr. filter elements 12.00 12.00
FDMC First Data Data processing svcs. 15.49 14.75
Management
FDRI First Data Resources Data entry & 56.00 14.00
processing
FSFA First Southern S&L association 19.38 7.00
Federal
HGIS Healthgroup Int'l Health care services 5.00 4.00
HORC Horizon Health Mental health facilities 43.35 17.00
HOV Hovnanian Enter- Home builder 12.83 13.50
prises
INSO Innovative Software Design business 4.51 8.50
software
KMWS KMW Systems Mfr. telecomm. equip. 4.50 10.00
MSII Medical Sterilization Medical instruments 4.50 5.00
NMRRU NMR of America Out-patient imaging 4.40 8.00 e
clinics
NATT North Atlantic Tech. Mfr. heat recovery sys. 2.10 3.50
NESA Northeast Savings S&L association 44.86 12.00
NAFI Northern Air Freight Air freight service 8.00 8.00
PCSI Paragon Telephone intercon- 3.50 5.00
Communications necting systems
PAYX Paychex Payroll accounting 11.00 11.00
service
PHSI Pearle Health Retail eye-care 122.20 17.00
Services services
PFSI Pittock Financial Broker/dealer 3.00 3.00 B
PHCC Preferred Health Provide health service 3.25 5.00
PBAO Provincetown- Airline 9.00 10.00
Boston
PSFS PSFS S&L association 340.34 11.25
RENL Renal Systems Mfr. medical devices 5.50 11.00
RTEC Restec Systems Fast-food restaurants 2.80 7.00
SKFB S&K Famous Brands Discount men's stores 6.00 10.00
SHOE Shoe-Town Operate shoe-store 40.00 10.00
chain
STRA Stratus Computer Mfr. computers 36.00 12.00
SPDC S-P Drug Drug wholesaler 26.25 15.00
SYMS Syms Operate clothing 51.56 15.00
stores
SBIO Synbiotics Mfr. biochemical prod. 4.00 10.00
SYNGU Synergetics Remote info. monitors 1.70 4.00 d
TLCI Tender Loving Care Home health care svcs. 4.03 5.75
TFLXU Termiflex Sell terminals 3.20 8.00 d
PROBU TII Computer Mfr. telecommun. 3.00 5.00 c
Systems systems
UMUKY Universal Money Ctr. Automated teller 4.00 4.00
machines
VIVI Vivigen Fetal-cell analysis 2.11 3.25
BYRD William Byrd Press Regional printer 3.51 13.00
WNTL Winterhalter Develop software 5.00 5.00
First
O-T-C aftermarket
sym. Company bid Unerwriter
AMFD A&M Food Services 7 Piper, Jaffray
AGSI Advanced Genetic 15 1/2 Smith Barney
AMCAR Ambulatory Medical 6 1/4 Gradison; Dickinson
(a) American Network 1 3/4 Torrey & Co.
AMPH American Physicians 6 1/4 Bear, Sterns
AMPD Ampad 20 Kidder, Peabody
ATCO Atcor 14 1/2 First Boston
ATLF Altantic Financial 11 3/4 First Boston; Lehman
Federal Brothers; Witler
BLED Ballard Medical 7 Covey & Co
BIND Bindley Western 20 E.F. Hutton
Industries
BKWS BKW 5 1/4 Fitzgerald, De Arman
CFCC Carteret Savings 9 1/2 A.G. Becker;
Prudential-Bache
CELL Cell Products 7 3/4 D.H. Blair; F.N. Wolf
CELPU Cellular Products 2 1/4 Greentree Sec.
CLNDU Clinical Diagnostics 2 Neidiger/Tucker
COMW Commonwealth S&L 12 Drexel Burnham
CUCD Comp-U-Card 20 1/2 Morgan Stanley
CHSI Cont'l Healthcare 5 3/4 Boettcher & Co.
BUGS Cooper Biomedical 11 L.F. Rothschild; E.F.
Hutton; Rooney, Pace
CULP Culp 12 3/4 Smith Barney;
Interstate Securities
DSCC Datasouth Computer 12 Dean Witter; Robinson-
Humphrey
EATO Eaton Financial 8 Herzfeld & Stern
EQUA Equatorial 14 3/4 Alex. Brown & Sons;
Communications Robertson, Colman
FHSY Family Health System 7 3/4 Cralin & Co.
FILTZ Filtertek 12 1/2 Lehman Bros.
FDMC First Data 14 1/2 Robinson-Humphrey;
Management Montgomery Sec.
FDRI First Data Resources 14 Morgan Stanley;
Shearson
FSFA First Southern 7 1/2 A.G. Becker;
Federal Robinson-Humphrey
HGIS Healthgroup Int'l 4 1/8 Paulson Investment
HORC Horizon Health 16 3/4 Alex. Brown & Sons
HOV Hovnanian Enter- 13 1/2 Drexel Burnham
prises
INSO Innovative Software 8 1/2 Stern Bros.
KMWS KMW Systems 10 1/2 Schneider, Bernet
MSII Medical Sterilization 5 D.H. Blair
NMRRU NMR of America 8 1/2 Swartwood, Hesse
NATT North Atlantic Tech. 3 1/2 Summit Investment
NESA Northeast Savings 12 1/8 E.F. Hutton; Shearson;
Lehman Bros.; Ad-
vest; Tucker, Anthony
NAFI Northern Air Freight 8 3/4 Piper, Jaffray
PCSI Paragon 4 3/4 Rauscher Pierce
Communications
PAYX Paychex 11 1/4 Hambrecht & Quist;
E.F. Hutton
PHSI Pearle Health 17 Wm. Blair;
Services Goldman, Sachs
PFSI Pittock Financial 3 1/4 Fitzgerald, DeArman
PHCC Preferred Health 5 D.H. Blair
PBAO Provincetown- 10 E.F. Hutton
Boston
PSFS PSFS 11 1/2 Salomon; Drexel Burn-
ham; Goldman; E.F.
Hutton; Merrill Lynch
RENL Renal Systems 11 William Blair
RTEC Restec Systems 7 Blunt Ellis & Loewi
SKFB S&K Famous Brands 10 Wheat, First Securities
SHOE Shoe-Town 9 7/8 Merrill Lynch; L.F.
Rothschild; Shearson
STRA Stratus Computer 12 1/2 Morgan Stanley;
Alex. Brown;
Hambrecht & Quist
SPDC S-P Drug 13 1/2 L.F. Rothschild
SYMS Syms 15 1/2 Rothschild Inc.;
Bear, Sterns
SBIO Synbiotics 10 San Diego Securities
SYNGU Synergetics 4 Hanifen, Imhoff
TLCI Tender Loving Care 5 3/4 D.H. Blair
TFLXU Termiflex 8 1/2 Advest
PROBU TII Computer 5 3/4 Broadchild Securities
Systems
UMUKY Universal Money Ctr. 4 1/8 Paulson Investment;
Swartwood, Hesse
VIVI Vivigen 3 1/2 J.W. Gant
BYRD William Byrd Press 13 Wheat, First Securities
WNTL Winterhalter 5 1/2 First Heritage
Initial public offerings sold at $1 or less not included. Issues without underwriters not included. First aftermarket bid is approximate.
(a) Ticker symbol not yet assigned.
B best effort.
c common + 1 warrant.
d units of 1 common + 1 warrant.
e units of 2 common + 2 warrants. Offering data source: GOING PUBLIC: The IPO Reporter, 1528 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19102
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