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Definition of 'Ipo'. Tweet. Initial public offering is the process by which a private company can go public by sale of its stocks to general public. Definition: Initial public offering is the process by which a private company can go public by sale of its stocks to general public. It could be a new, young company or an old company which decides to be listed on an exchange and hence goes public.
Companies of all sorts often need to raise capital for investment and expansion, to buy out existing private shareholders, or to redeem debt. One way to do this is to take the company public, through what has become known as an IPO, an initial public offering. IPO Definition. An IPO involves the issue of new shares or the sale of existing shares by current holders, sometimes both. Purchasers of most of these shares at flotation will be investment institutions, such as pension funds and insurance firms. However most share offers are also open to small investors.