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Days from IPO Filing to Pricing
Median days from a company's first public S-1 or F-1 to its IPO pricing, operating-company IPOs priced each quarter
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
Starts at the first public filing; confidential drafts (common since 2012) come earlier. Quarters with few matched IPOs are left out.
How long companies sit in registration before pricing. It lengthens when markets are choppy or the SEC is slow, and shortens when issuers rush to catch an open window.
What this chart reads
- Median Days from IPO Filing to Pricing (U.S.)as “Median days”latest 2026-07-01
Sources
Median Days from IPO Filing to Pricing (U.S.). Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR full and daily form indexes (sec.gov/Archives/edgar), company filing histories (data.sec.gov submissions) and EDGAR's bulk submissions file. Public domain: "Information presented on sec.gov is considered public information and may be copied or further distributed by users of the web site without the SEC's permission" (SEC website dissemination policy, sec.gov/about/privacy-information).
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