Cryptocurrency firms have been rushing to issue initial public offerings (IPO) this year; however, they’ve not all been winners for investors who get in when these stocks are finally offered publicly.
Among five firms analyzed by Protos — Circle, Galaxy Digital, Bullish, Gemini, and eToro — only two of them — Circle and Galaxy Digital — currently trade above their initial price.
Galaxy Digital was also not technically an IPO, as it had previously traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but it did offer an underwritten public offering of its stock as part of its listing on the NASDAQ exchange.
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Galaxy Digital and Circle have both seen an approximate 63.5% relative increase in their trading price since their securities became available on NASDAQ.
Circle was, at one point, trading at approximately three times its initial price before falling to this lower level.
The three losers have all lost at least 20%, with Bullish being the smallest relative drop.
The largest relative drop was eToro (which isn’t purely a crypto company but does offer crypto products) which has lost over 40% of its value.
If an investor had hypothetically been able to put $1,000 into each of these firms at their IPO their $5,000 investment would now be worth approximately $5,260.