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Animal Spirits Podcast

Ben Turns 40 (EP.218)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show we discuss direct-listed IPO performance, the scorching hot NFT market, Ben's milestone birthday, transitory inflation signals, shortages in the economy, the relativity of rich and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's animal spirits is brought to you

0:01.6

by our friends at YCharts.

0:03.6

YCharts sent us a piece of research in the past week

0:06.8

called How to Discuss Hood and New IPO Stocks with Clients.

0:10.8

And I wish they would have sent me this

0:13.0

before I tried and failed to invest successfully

0:16.6

in the Robin Hood IPO because they have

0:18.7

some really cool charts in here

0:19.8

and they show the direct listed IPO returns.

0:23.2

And they show them on the first day of trading.

0:25.4

So this is Spotify, Asana, Palantir, Robox,

0:28.0

Coinbase, Squarespace, Dipper Cruder, and Robin Hood.

0:31.3

There's a lot of big name direct listings,

0:33.6

but there's only been like half a dozen.

0:35.7

Yeah, it's not that many, but I'm just saying,

0:37.6

so they broke it up by first day of trading.

0:39.7

And most of them did just, eh, okay,

0:42.1

the majority of them were down.

0:43.1

The ones that popped didn't pop that much.

0:44.8

The only ones with a big gain were Spotify and Squarespace.

0:48.1

And those were only up 12 and 15%.

0:50.8

But the first five days of trading,

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