IPOs this week : Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 20 (wk 40)

IPOs expected to price

• The big debut of the week is Palantir Technologies (PLTR), which is expected to start trading in a direct listing on the NYSE on September 30. Bankers think the software/data analytics company could start off in the $10 range, which would give it a lush market cap of just under $22B. The Denver-based company lost $580M in 2019. 
• Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO), 
• Asana (ASAN),  (direct listing?)
• Boqii Holding (BQ), 
• Chindata Group Holdings (CD),  (data centers?)
• Immunome (IMNM), 
• WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ:WIMI), 
• Mission Produce (AVO), 
• Pulmonx (LUNG) and 
• Yalla Group (YALA) 

IPO quiet period expirations

• PainReform (NASDAQ:PRFX) on September 29.

IPOs this week : April 13 - 17, 20 (wk 16)

IPO lockup expirations

• Owl Rock Capital (NYSE:ORCC) is up 33% over the last week just ahead of the 270-day lockup period expiring for sales of blocks of two-thirds of positions. 
• Former Post Holdings (NYSE:POST) subsidiary BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) has an IPO share lockup expiration date of April 15. Shares of BRBR trade 21% above where the IPO was priced. 

Upcoming IPOs
As the pandemic continues on, it appears more unlikely that some of the blockbuster IPOs expected this year will fire off. That list includes

• Cole Haan (CLHN), Airbnb (AIRB), Postmates (POSTM), Robinhood (HOOD), Snowflake (SNOW), DoorDash (DASH), Asana (ASAN) Instacart (CART), Wish, Palantir (PLTR), Rackspace [owned by Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO)], Didi Chuxing (DIDI), Topgolf [Callaway Golf (NYSE:ELY) has a stake], Stripe (STRIP), Madewell (MDWL) [a Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) retail partner] and McAfee [Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has a stake].