INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: OCTOBER 1987
Offering
First
Size after-
O-T-C ($ market
sym. Company Business/product mil.) Price bid Underwriter
BLYH Blyth Holdings Software vendor 7.70 7.00 7 Breen Murray
CODL Code-Alarm Mfrs. auto 3.71 6.75 6 1/2 First of
security Michigan
systs.
CTIA Communications Telephone 26.40 12.00 12 Goldman Sachs
Transmission transmission
network
FYBR Critical Mfrs. asbestos- 6.60 5.50 5 1/2 Wm. K. Woodruff
Industries abatement equip.
LUNG C. A. Blockers R&D medical 3.00 2.00 2 3/8 Kashner
technology Davidson
DSMI Dallas Mfrs. & mkts. 33.75 9.00 10 3/8 Alex. Brown
Semiconductor integrated
circuits
EDAT Electronic Data Mfrs. & mkts. 4.11 5.88 5 3/4 Morgan Olmstead
Technology marketing systs.
FASN Fashion Channel Mkts. consumer 21.00 10.50 10 1/2 R. G. Dickinson
Network prods. via TV
FTSP First Team Mkts. roller 2.59 1.50 1 1/2 Hayne Miller
Sports skates
HHBX HHB Systems Mfrs. logic-fault 18.00 12.00 11 1/2 Alex. Brown
simulators
YLD a High Income Closed-end mgmt. 250.00 10.00 10 Dean Witter
Advantage investment co.
RVEE Holiday RV Retails 4.50 2.25 2 3/8 Thomas James
Superstores recreational
vehicles
IIVI II-VI Mkts. 6.14 6.50 6 1/4 Advest
electro-optical
components
INVN Invitron Mfrs. protein 23.00 c 11.50 11 3/8 Shearson Lehman
prods.
ISOE Isoetec Mfrs. comm. systs. 8.00 10.00 10 Smith Barney
Communications
JWAIA Johnson Holding co. & mfr. 28.75 15.50 16 1/2 Wm. Blair
Worldwide of recreational &
Associates ink prods.
KPTL Keptel Mfrs. telephone 11.25 7.50 7 1/2 Kidder Peabody
equip.
KIX b Kerkhoff Construction 5.00 5.00 5 R. F. Lafferty
Industries operations
LIG a Liggett Group Mfrs. cigarettes 48.00 12.00 12 Drexel Burnham
MFO a MFS Income & Closed-end mgmt. 85.00 10.00 10 Wheat First
Opportunity investment co.
Trust
MIF b Munilnsured Closed-end mgmt. 65.00 10.00 10 Merrill Lynch
Fund investment co.
NCA a Nuveen CA Closed-end mgmt. 180.00 10.00 9 3/4 Alex. Brown
Municiple Value investment co.
Fund
NNY a Nuveen NY Closed-end mgmt. 110.00 10.00 9 1/2 Alex. Brown
municiple investment co.
Value
Fund
XTX b NY Closed-end mgmt. 20.00 10.00 9 5/8 Advest
Tax-Exempt investment co.
Income Fund
SPGLA Spiegel Retails mail-order 72.00 d 16.00 16 Merrill Lynch
consumer prods.
SA b Stage II Mfrs. clothing 8.00 8.00 7 7/8 Dean Witter
Apparel
SWVA Steel of West Owns & operates 20.00 12.50 12 1/2 Smith Barney
Virginia steel minimill
TTOI Tempest Modifies computer 18.00 9.00 9 Donaldson Lufkin
Technologies hardware
ZCOTU Z-Coat Group Mfrs. gun coatings 1.80 e 6.00 6 Profile
Investment
a trading on NYSE;
b trading on AMEX;
c additional 1 million shares offered overseas;
d additional 1.5 million shares offered overseas;
e units of 6 common + 2 warrants.
Initial public offerings sold at $1 or less not included; issues without underwriters not included. First aftermarket bid is approximate.
Offering data source: GOING PUBLIC: THE IPO Reporter, a publication of The Dealer's Digest Inc., 150 Broadway, New York, NY 10038.
Note: Both graphs of the month-to-month percent change in the stock-market indexes have been adjusted. Each index now begins at zero as of September 1987. This restart was done so that relative performances would be graphically meaningful on a postcrash basis. The indexes were formerly started together at zero in May 1982 -- when the DJI stood at a mere 850.
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