Going Public: How a Private Company Becomes a Stock You Can Buy

Podcast: Money Lessons with Andrew Temte, PhD, CFA · Andrew Temte

Opublikowano: 2026-05-23

In this episode of Money Lessons, Andy walks through what happens when a company goes public — how a private business with a small group of owners becomes a publicly traded stock that anyone with a brokerage account can buy. The episode covers the five reasons companies decide to go public, the underwriting process and the role of investment banks, the road show and how the offering price gets set, and what happens on the first day of trading — including why the price you and I pay is almost always different from the price the institutions paid the night...