Hoover's IPO Scorecard Reveals Continued Year-Over-Year Decline for 2009

U.S. IPOs In Q2 2009 Trail Q2 2008 IPOs By Only 8%

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AUSTIN Texas - July 6, 2009 - Hoover's Inc. (http://www.hoovers.com) today announced the number of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) decreased 8% for Q2 2009 compared to the same quarter a year ago, as revealed in Hoover's IPO Scorecard (http://www.hoovers.com/ipo/scorecard). This follows on the heels of Q1 2009, which saw a significantly larger decline of 83% in new offerings compared to Q1 2008.

In Q2 2009, 12 companies went public on the major U.S. stock exchanges, raising $1.6 billion, compared to Q2 2008 when 13 companies went public, raising $4.2 billion. So far this year, U.S. IPOs have raised $2.3 billion via 14 deals, down 90% from the January through June 2008 period, when 25 IPOs raised $23.1 billion (Visa's Q1 2008 IPO represents $17.9 billion of this total).

Findings from Hoover's IPO Scorecard for Q2 2009:

• Best First-Day Gain: OpenTable, Inc. 59%
• Worst First-Day Drop: Government Properties Income Trust -3%
• In April eBay announced plans for a possible 2010 spinoff IPO of its Skype Internet phone business, while Current Media, the Internet and cable company backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, withdrew its IPO, citing market conditions.
• Four companies went public in one week in June. There haven't been that many IPOs in one week since May 2008.

Best-Returning IPOs for Q2:

"A handful of seemingly successful deals does not equal a turnaround in the IPO market. For a real turnaround, we'd need to see many more companies filing to go public," said Tim Walker, Hoover's industry expert and author of the Business Insight Zone. "There are some signs of life on the horizon, however, from a few IPO hopefuls within the mortgage and banking industries. In Q2 three companies from this sector filed to go public, looking to raise what in these times would quantify as large amounts - more than $500 million each."

Hoover's analyzes the IPO market daily to produce the quarterly IPO Scorecard. Each IPO Scorecard includes an assortment of facts selected by Hoover's editors, including the best- and worst-performing IPOs, biggest one-day jumps and drops in the first day of trading, and a breakdown by industry sector.

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