The percentage of IPO shares that an investor receives. (See: Allocation Notice). Don't get fooled by the fact that the term has the word "alot" in it. The term has nothing to do with the notion that you get alot of shares in a hot IPO. In reality, most investors who want tons of shares (thinking "free money!") only get a few. Maybe a better term would be "Alittlement."
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Finance a la shmoop... what is a roadshow? think about the rhymes IPO Roadshow....
but the two terms are lines from a sweet sweet poem if you're an investment banker as part [Poem of investment banking book appears]
of your firms job you'll take management of whatever company is going public or
raising capital in whatever form on what is called a roadshow, they'll go on the
road traveling all over the country and all around the world like they're a
vaudeville act singing crazy songs and showing men in dresses and wearing hats [Man in a pink dress and a blonde wig]
that was a thing back then that was entertainment sorry, just keeping it
real with the sales people banging a drum [Boy walking in the woods banging a drum]
about how awesome this new hair growth formula is they'll attract investors on
their Roadshow from all over the country maybe all over the world and they'll
point out how much need there is for hair around the world..
Yeah and they'll also bang a [Dwayne Johnson appears from a door]
tambourine and sing about how much the stock could go up next the next few
years yeah they'll do that and there's a PowerPoint presentation deck on this
road show lots of numbers traded among financial analysts for stock brokers and
money managers analysts to all chew on and that Roadshow continues almost like [Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump on stage]
an election with a final tally on the day the shares are placed and the cash
changes hands and a new public company is born...
let's just hope someone remembered to you know pack the diapers
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