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U.S. IPOs by Sector
Operating-company IPOs each quarter by the company's SIC division
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
SPACs and funds are left out. The handful in other divisions (farming, construction, unclassified) are not shown. SIC divisions are broad, and the code is the company's current one.
Which industries are going public. Drug developers and chipmakers sit in manufacturing; software and internet companies sit in services.
What this chart reads·6 series
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- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Manufacturingas “Manufacturing (incl. biotech, chips)”latest 2026-07-01
- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Servicesas “Services (incl. software)”latest 2026-07-01
- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Finance and Real Estateas “Finance and real estate”latest 2026-07-01
- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Transport, Communications and Utilitiesas “Transport, telecom, utilities”latest 2026-07-01
- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Mining, Oil and Gasas “Mining, oil and gas”latest 2026-07-01
- U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Retail and Wholesale Tradeas “Retail and wholesale”latest 2026-07-01
Sources·6 sources
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U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Manufacturing. 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).
U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Services. 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).
U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Finance and Real Estate. 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).
U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Transport, Communications and Utilities. 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).
U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Mining, Oil and Gas. 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).
U.S. IPOs per Quarter: Retail and Wholesale Trade. 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).
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.