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Biopharma IPOs In 2016: Fewer Offerings, Better Returns As Firms Adjust To Market Realities

 
• By Mandy Jackson

The number of US biopharma IPOs during the first 11 months of 2016 – 29 companies went public – is less than half of the 2015 total of 62, but stock performance has improved as investors focus on quality.

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The window for initial public offerings has narrowed during the past year and a half in an attempt to improve the quality and value of newly public biopharmaceutical companies, which is why only 29 biopharma firms have completed IPOs in the US this year as of November 30 compared with 62 therapeutics firms that went public in 2015.

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