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Michael Cembalest Takes Us to School

The Compound and Friends

CHAPTER

The IPO Bubble: What It Was and What It Meant

The Russell 1000 equal weight food beverage and tobacco looks like it wants to roll over. The stock market is probably a great leading indicator for how many deals we'll see, just because risk appetite writ large. SPACs have been the worst experiment in capital markets and corporate finance that I've ever seen. And then my tagline is be careful what you wish for in life. You may get it because we got a tsunami of horrible IPO and spec activity.

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