burger king’s parent is among the companies that benefited from rising share prices a string of recent big stock sales by public companies is boosting confidence among bankers and investors that the drought in ipos may finally be easing more than 50 publicly traded companies in the us raised a total of roughly 74 billion for themselves or shareholders in february compared with 23 raising 18 billion in the same month last year dealogic data show that is still far lower than in the prior sharesale boom when 150 companies raised 32 billion in february 2021