the ipo market is looking up last week beauty company oddity priced its shares above raised expectations and the stock climbed in its market debut an encouraging sign for an ipo market that’s been in the doldrums for nearly two years in an initial public offering executives and underwriters visit fund managers and analysts to pitch them on buying stock in the company ahead of the offering on oddity’s roadshow fervent demand for stock was apparent according to people who attended meetings that doesn’t mean the ipo market has totally recovered in the boom years of 2020 and 2021 four or five companies were often listing shares each week itll be clear demand is fully back once the market can sell billions of dollars worth of shares between multiple ipos in a week according to one fund manager