2022 was the year of the canceled IPOs

Frankfurt. The high price fluctuations on the stock markets and the prospects of a recession in the coming year have weighed heavily on the global IPOs in 2022. The lull intensified again in the fourth quarter – from October to December, only 334 companies worldwide dared to go public. That is 50 percent less than in the fourth quarter of the record year 2021. Issuance volume fell even more, by 73 percent to $31.9 billion.

A similarly gloomy picture emerges for the year as a whole, according to the current barometer from the auditing and consulting company EY. The number of IPOs – the abbreviation stands for Initial Public Offerings – fell worldwide by 45 percent to 1333, the issue volume shrank by 61 percent to 180 billion dollars.