IPO Winners & Losers
365 Day Period Through December, 2004

10 Best
Date Company Symbol % Chg. 
09/29 51job, Inc. JOBS +275.0
05/13 Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. SNDA +260.6
09/24 Cogent Inc. COGT +175.0
12/09 Ctrip.com International CTRP +170.4
03/31 Marchex, Inc. MCHX +168.2
07/29 Volterra Semiconductor Corp. VLTR +164.7
08/27 eCOST.com, Inc. ECST +155.8
12/17 Provide Commerce, Inc. PRVD +151.3
08/05 RightNow Technologies Inc. RNOW +151.2
02/24 Kinetic Concepts Inc. KCI +149.6
10 Worst
Date Company Symbol % Chg. 
12/16 Mercer Insurance Group Inc MRCR -93.0
02/06 Staktek Holdings, Inc. STAK -68.3
12/18 Knology Inc. KNOL -67.8
03/16 Xcyte Therapies, Inc. XCYT -65.6
12/12 Central Freight Lines, Inc. CENF -56.6
04/14 Corcept Therapeutics, Inc. CORT -52.
02/12 Corgentech Inc. CGTK -49.5
02/06 AlphaSmart, Inc. ALSM -48.
02/20 Cherokee International Finance Inc. CHRK -46.1
06/17 InfoSonics Corp. IFO -45.3

Last 365 Days Peformance - All IPOs During This Period

The first graph belows shows the percentage gain or loss in price for all IPOs during the last 365 day period, while the second graph shows the market capitalization immediately after IPO (US $Mil.).

The black bar in the performance graph marks the median number of IPOs during the 365 day period. A total of 246 IPOs took place during the period.

graph

graph

Billion+ Dollar Market Caps at IPO
Company Symbol Market
Cap. ($ Mil.) 		% Chg.
Google Inc. GOOG 23053.7 +116.7
NAVTEQ Corp. NVT 1927.7 +104.7
Gol Intelligent Airlines Inc. GOL 3188.2 +81.7
Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS 10167.1 +63.7
China Life Insurance Company Limited LFC 120870.6 +49.9
Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM 1095.1 +46.6
Advance America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc. AEA 1260.4 +46.3
International Steel Group Inc. ISG 2671.2 +45.7
Assurant, Inc. AIZ 3191.6 +38.9
Genworth Financial, Inc. GNW 9545.8 +34.7
Nalco Holding Co. NLC 2119.3 +33.0
Bill Barrett Corp. BBG 1009.3 +33.
Freescale Semiconductor (Formerly SPS Spinco) FSL 3618.9 +32.0
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. DWA 2957.6 +30.0
Dex Media Inc. DEX 2771.2 +29.7
Nelnet, Inc NNI 1113.8 +26.0
LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. LPL 9708.0 +20.3
New Century REIT Inc. NEW 2758.9 +13.3
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. AHL 1495.1 +9.
CPFL Energy Inc. CPL 8126.1 +7.7
AGC Holdings Ltd. (Assured Guaranty Ltd.) AGO 1350.0 +3.1
Saxon REIT SAXN 1159.3 +1.8
KongZhong Corp. KONG 13700.0 +0.0
ADESA Inc. KAR 2276.4 -12.5
China Finance Online Co. LTD JRJC 1291.3 -17.4
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. TRW 2769.6 -26.9
Linktone Ltd. LTON 3501.8 -38.2

Copyright 2004 IPO Monitor. All rights reserved. Redistribution or publication of this content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of IPO Monitor. This information is provided AS-IS, without any warranty of any kind. IPO Monitor makes no claims concerning the accuracy or validity of the information, and shall not be held liable for any errors, delays, omissions or use thereof.

Please report problems with this site via the Contact Us page.