The 14 Biggest IPOs in History
Date: May 19, 2011
Glencore is the world's largest diversified commodities trader, with more than 57,000 employees. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, the company went public on the Londo
Deal Size: $10.316 billionDate: May 19, 2011
Glencore is the world's largest diversified commodities trader, with more than 57,000 employees. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, the company went public on the London Stock Exchange last year.
REUTERS/David Mercado
Date: July 13, 2006
Russian petroleum giant Rosneft is 75 percent state-owned, with about 15 percent of shares floated publicly. The company produces nearly 2.4 million barrels of oil per
Deal Size: $10.421 billionDate: July 13, 2006
Russian petroleum giant Rosneft is 75 percent state-owned, with about 15 percent of shares floated publicly. The company produces nearly 2.4 million barrels of oil per day. Its share price as of January 31 remains only slightly above where it was in July 2006.
REUTERS/Nikolay Korchekov
Date: April 26, 2000At the time of its spinoff from parent company AT&T, the IPO of AT&T's wireless telephone division was the largest ever. A series of mergers and acquisitions since then h Deal Size: $10.620 billion
Date: April 26, 2000At the time of its spinoff from parent company AT&T, the IPO of AT&T's wireless telephone division was the largest ever. A series of mergers and acquisitions since then have brought the company back to being a part of a "new" AT&T. REUTERS/Ho New
Date: March 23, 2010
One of Japan's largest life insurers priced its shares on March 23 and began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010.
Deal Size: $10.986 billionDate: March 23, 2010
One of Japan's largest life insurers priced its shares on March 23 and began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010.
REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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May 24, 2006
The Bank of China, one of the country's "Big Four" financial powerhouses, had been state-owned until it issued more than 25 billion shares, representing a 10.5
Deal Size: $11.186 billionDate:
May 24, 2006
The Bank of China, one of the country's "Big Four" financial powerhouses, had been state-owned until it issued more than 25 billion shares, representing a 10.5 percent stake, to the public.
REUTERS/David Gray
Date: November 17, 1996
Then the world's third-largest telecom company, Germany's giant went public after what The Wall Street Journal called "months of an advertising blitz th
Deal Size: $13.034 billionDate: November 17, 1996
Then the world's third-largest telecom company, Germany's giant went public after what The Wall Street Journal called "months of an advertising blitz that convinced an unexpectedly large 1.9 million Germans to buy stock in the phone monopoly." While it still trades in Germany, in 2010, the company delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in order to "reduce complexity in financial reporting and administrative costs."
REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Date: February 9, 1987
Before the IPO boom of the 1990s, Japan's telecom giant set the gold standard for IPO size when it became listed on Japanese exchanges. It later added listings in
Deal Size: $15.301 billionDate: February 9, 1987
Before the IPO boom of the 1990s, Japan's telecom giant set the gold standard for IPO size when it became listed on Japanese exchanges. It later added listings in New York and London.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Date: November 17, 2010
General Motors filed for its public offering in August 2010, just over a year after it emerged from its taxpayer-funded bankruptcy. GM sold 478 million common share
Deal Size: $15.774 billionDate: November 17, 2010
General Motors filed for its public offering in August 2010, just over a year after it emerged from its taxpayer-funded bankruptcy. GM sold 478 million common shares at $33 each after raising its offering price from its original estimate of $26 to $29. It also sold another $4.35 billion in preferred shares, raising far more than the $13 billion it had originally projected. In total, the No. 1 U.S. carmaker raised more than $20 billion.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Date: November 1, 1999
Ente Nazionale per L'Energie Elettrica, or Enel, is Italy's largest power company. It became Italy's largest company by market cap
Date: November 1, 1999
Ente Nazionale per L'Energie Elettrica, or Enel, is Italy's largest power company. It became Italy's largest company by market cap
Date: October 21, 2010
The Asian life insurance arm of AIG, AIA was carved out from its parent company to become, as Renaissance Capital put it, "the only pure play Pan-Asian life insure Deal Size: $17.816 billion
Date: October 21, 2010
The Asian life insurance arm of AIG, AIA was carved out from its parent company to become, as Renaissance Capital put it, "the only pure play Pan-Asian life insurer." AIG had tried to sell the division to Britain's Prudential, but that deal fell apart. AIG said it would use part of the proceeds of the IPO to repay the $182 billion in bailout funds it got from the U.S. government during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Date: March 18, 2008
The biggest U.S. IPO ever, Visa's stock offering had investors charged up even at a time when the markets were beginning to crumble and investment bank Bear Stearns Deal Size: $17.864 billion
Date: March 18, 2008
The biggest U.S. IPO ever, Visa's stock offering had investors charged up even at a time when the markets were beginning to crumble and investment bank Bear Stearns had just collapsed. The stock has almost doubled since then. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Date: October 22, 1998
The Japanese mobile phone giant dialed into big money when it went public. Parent company NTT saw its stake in the cellular service provider drop from 95 percen
Deal Size: $18.099 billionDate: October 22, 1998
The Japanese mobile phone giant dialed into big money when it went public. Parent company NTT saw its stake in the cellular service provider drop from 95 percent to about 67 percent through the sale.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Date: October 20, 2006
The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the largest bank in the country, broke the IPO record set by NYTT DoCoMo when it floated 14.8 percent of its shares on
Deal Size: $19.092 billionDate: October 20, 2006
The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the largest bank in the country, broke the IPO record set by NYTT DoCoMo when it floated 14.8 percent of its shares on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges in late 2006. The Chinese government controls about 70 percent of ICBC.
REUTERS/Nir Elias
Date: July 7, 2010
The third-largest bank in China delivered the biggest IPO ever. The Beijing-based Agricultural Bank of China has a major presence in rural China, with locations in major
Deal Size: $19.228 billionDate: July 7, 2010
The third-largest bank in China delivered the biggest IPO ever. The Beijing-based Agricultural Bank of China has a major presence in rural China, with locations in major cities too. It was the last of the major Chinese banks to go public, and it followed up its IPO in Hong Kong and Shahgai by selling another 3.34 IPO shares in Shanghai the following month, bringing its total haul to a reported $22.1 billion.
REUTERS/Booby Yip