Private equity-backed IPOs, 2000-2011

What is interesting about the graph above is that volume and value of IPOs have little correlation except in very slow periods. In 2002, IPO values rise, ending on a slump in 2003, before the market picked up again.

The financial crisis shattered the IPO market in 2008 and 2009; 2010, however, under the assumption of a recovery, saw 10 times the value and three times the volume of the previous year.

But as the recovery stalled and the European sovereign debt crisis erupted, 2011 saw a return to the poor performance of 2009. 

• Tweet  
• Facebook  
• LinkedIn  
• Google plus  
• Send to  

• Topics
• Exits
• Unquote Data