Many of these companies that came public during this time that I think are actually pretty

darn good businesses have seen their stocks take similar hits to companies that have no

revenue or have extremely cyclical demand.

But some of these companies came public at very high valuations.

They've continued to perform.

They've continued to execute.

Some of these companies are profitable and should be sustainably profitable and yet they've

still seen massive hits to their stock prices.

I'm Chris Hill and that's a Motley Fool contributor Brian Faraldi.

2021 was a record year for companies going public.

This year that market has dried up.

Faraldi joined Dylan Lewis for a look back at the IPO boom, why so many companies went

public and the lessons investors can take from the formerly red hot market.

They've discussed the cyclical companies that may never come back to their IPO prices

and the strong businesses making their way through a less forgiving stock market.

2021 was a milestone year for new names to the public markets.

According to Ernst and Young globally, there were 2500 public debuts last year raising around

400 billion in the process.

The story in 2022 for the first half of the year proceeds are down almost 50% and global

IPO volumes are down about 50% as well.

Joining me to talk about the IPO market and lessons from the last couple of years is Motley

Fool contributor Brian Faraldi.

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