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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by jdavis703 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:59PM (#12802818)
Well no one would buy in at IPO time if they thought it was some kind of pump and dump scheme (of course this does happen, but is hopefully rare). An IPO is generally designed to raise cash that will be invested back into the business, and as a side effect give the investors a return.
Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by cloudjacker on Thursday October 27, 2016 @02:19AM (#12803230)
yeah for the banks that underwrote the IPO and dumped the shares on your mom's pension plan.

the liquidity of the secondary stock market is a purely American phenomenon.

Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by jstanley on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:10AM (#12803387)
> the liquidity of the secondary stock market is a purely American phenomenon.

What do you mean by that? Loads of countries have adequately liquid stock markets.

Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by cloudjacker on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:56AM (#12805107)
Exactly what I wrote, the liquidity is crap. Adequate? It's just down hill
Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by jdavis703 on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:04AM (#12804752)
That's actually not how underwriting works. If an IPO is a flop right out the gate sometimes the bank can get stuck with the shares.
Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by cloudjacker on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:58AM (#12805123)
That's the risk they take on. I listen to retail investors, they clamor for IPOs no matter what the S-1 says.