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INVESTOR’S REPORT 10 Upcoming IPOs You Can’t Afford to Miss By Money Morning Staff Reports IPOs were red-hot in 2020. They finished the year with a revenue record of $140 billion. The last record was in 1999 with $108 billion. In case you missed out, we’ve got ten monster IPOs to look forward to in the near future: • Instacart • Stripe • Nextdoor • ThoughtSpot • Kraken • ATAI • Databricks • Chime • Impossible Foods • Sweetgreen We recently witnessed the biggest software IPO in history as Snowflake Inc. (NASDAQ:SNOW) sold 28 million shares for a total of $3.4 billion. The share price bolted out of the gate, more than 150%, from $120 to above $300. 1
INVESTOR’S REPORT Two rock star app-based companies also went public. Airbnb Inc. stock (NASDAQ:ABNB) exceeded expectations with $3.7 billion raised. DoorDash Inc. stock (NYSE:DASH) came out to the tune of $3.4 billion. There are some even more exciting IPOs to watch for in 2021. These could go public as early as Q1. How to Think About IPO Investing Today IPO investing can be tricky since you’re relying on a lot of past information to judge the future. That’s obviously not going to give you any clear answers on whether a stock is a buy or not down the road. However, you can get some idea of where the company is at in its growth ahead of an IPO for a rough estimate of its chances. If you trust the management and find out the company has grown its revenue significantly in the last few years, it might be out of the “growth phase.” Its motivation for going public would be more than a mere cash grab. Another thing to consider is always the expected valuation and price. These can either tell a true story or be immensely overblown – often the latter – by hype. As a result, you often see a drop after the IPO. You could also have the opposite problem. The stock could open near or below expectations, which could spark negative sentiment. That’s why it never hurts to give the stock some breathing room before rushing in. To learn more about IPO investing, check out our comprehensive IPO investing guide. Now, let’s get into these upcoming IPOs. 2
INVESTOR’S REPORT Instacart IPO Seizes on Digital Shopping Trends An Instacart IPO is most likely underway in late 2021. It’s a grocery shopping and delivery app. The company had massive success as delivery became the primary mode of grocery shopping during the pandemic lockdowns. Thanks to the boost, this could be one of the biggest IPOs in 2021. It will go toe to toe with DoorDash, since it recently also expanded to grocery delivery. It’s important to remember, however, that many conditions surrounding its IPO likely won’t be the same. There are three things that separate Instacart from DoorDash, and it will be interesting to see how it all pans out. For one, Instacart was founded by a former Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) employee, likely with some insight into the Prime delivery business. This could be a logistical leg up for Instacart in that battle. Another leg up would be that Instacart was founded a year ahead of DoorDash. This might seem like a marginal difference, but don’t underestimate the benefit of being a first mover. The amount of ground you can cover in a year is significant. Where it is truly a first-mover is in the “shopping” aspect of its business. While DoorDash only added groceries to its list this year, Instacart was the pioneer. It has several of the familiar problems faced by gig stocks like DoorDash, Uber Inc. (NASDAQ:UBER), and Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT). Yet the company had an impressive 2020 and now could outperform its direct and indirect competition after a successful IPO. 3
INVESTOR’S REPORT Should You Buy Instacart Stock? Instacart was valued at $3.4 billion in 2017. Since then, the company has rocketed to a $17.7 billion valuation. Its demand grew 274% year over year due to the pandemic. Since a successful vaccine will take time to distribute, we could still be looking at similar growth in the near future. Its latest numbers put the company close behind retail giant Walmart in online deliveries. Instacart worked all of 2020 to streamline its order process with an “order ahead” feature and similar options to bolster its sales volume. In addition, the company is partnered with over 500 retailers, including Walmart. This could give the company increased exposure to the market. Unfortunately, it still suffers all the pressures you would expect from a California gig stock. The state passed a January 2020 law capping the number of contractors a corporation can hire. Even if this weren’t the case, Instacart shoppers, similar to Uber and Lyft drivers, have put pressure on the company to treat them more like employees, which would raise expenses for Instacart. The story with DoorDash was that you should have considered whether the company was an Uber or a Lyft. Since their 2019 IPOs, Uber is up 20%, and Lyft is down 37%. Similarly, the DoorDash versus Instacart battle will be one of marketing and price competition, which could either drive both stocks down for a while or prove who’s boss real quick. It doesn’t help that Grubhub and Uber Eats exist as well. You could look at the DoorDash IPO to get an idea of how the stock might perform early on. 4
INVESTOR’S REPORT The good news is that Instacart will have the cash to expand – the over 400% cash infusion since 2017 helps that effort. Stripe IPO Comes Just in Time for the E-Commerce Boom Digital payments are another trend that exploded in the pandemic, and we likely haven’t seen the last of it. Everyone and their mother wants to have their own e-commerce store. E-commerce makes up around a $3 trillion market, with online shopping taking a bigger share of retail sales every year. Stripe is a company that enables those e-commerce hopefuls to get paid for their goods and services digitally and with ease. Right now, the company is worth $36 billion. It’s the most valuable American fintech company yet to go public. With a growing number of businesses going online, either to stay relevant or to save on brick-and-mortar capital, this is sure to increase. It’s not merely e-commerce driving this growth. Use cases for digital pay have increased with the pandemic. People are paying for doctor’s appointments through telemedicine, consulting lawyers and therapists via Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NYSE:ZM), and much more. Seeing this opportunity, Stripe plans to pour more money into optimizing the platform, and an IPO in 2021 will help it do that. In addition to e-commerce, Stripe has a rich SaaS clientele, with Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE:CRM) at the top of the list. SaaS is another huge potential market set to boom over the next decade, and that’s potential profit for Stripe. EXTRA: The five BEST stocks to buy in 2021 and dozens of popular stocks to avoid at all costs. Watch now. 5
INVESTOR’S REPORT Should You Buy Stripe Stock? If you haven’t noticed the trend here, competition is thick for digital stocks. Stripe has PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDQ:PYPL), Square Inc. (NYSE:SQ), Venmo, and CashApp to contend with. These apps all serve different use cases, but as this market gets sorted out, it could get bitter. How does Stripe stack up financially? Right now, the company has $2 billion cash on its balance sheet, meaning it’s valued at 18 times its cash. Square’s valuation is 15 times, with $3.43 billion cash on hand. PayPal’s valuation is 20 times cash. Square’s latest revenue report came in at $7.56 billion for the quarter, up $2 billion from previous reports. PayPal’s most recent quarterly revenue was around $5.46 billion. Stripe’s is unknown, but you can get some idea of where it will be based on these numbers. Analysts expect its revenue to be in the ballpark of $3 billion and $4 billion. With so many similar, exciting competitors, the same wisdom applies to Stripe as these other flashy tech stocks. Give it some time. Watch Out for the Nextdoor IPO Nextdoor was valued at just $2 billion in its last funding round, back in September 2019. It could more than double by its IPO. The neighborhood networking app could be valued somewhere between $4 billion and $5 billion by its IPO. According to Bloomberg, the company has had a few chances to go public via SPAC merger, but it turned all of those down. 6
INVESTOR’S REPORT This 2008 San Francisco startup provides a sort of “neighborhood watch” experience but with the addition of fostering community by listing events and services nearby and facilitating conversation between neighbors. The app is currently available in 11 countries. In the time of COVID-19, it proved a hit as people were forced to travel less and look for ways to engage with their more immediate surroundings. It could remain an important app in the future if people gravitate to a more localized lifestyle. Is Nextdoor Stock a Buy? Its growing valuation is paralleled by a growing number of U.S. neighborhoods using Nextdoor. Right now, it serves over 220,000 neighborhoods. The Nextdoor app allows people to get information on doctors, dentists, and restaurants in their area. Unlike Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP), Nextdoor takes a “hyper local” approach. So it’s like Yelp but more personal. This obviously has its benefits – but, if you can imagine, it also has its drawbacks. Like many Silicon Valley startups, Nextdoor faces the challenge of “teaching” its audience how to use a novel service. Many are familiar with neighborhood watch, but not everyone is comfortable having the neighborhood in their pocket at all times. This means although the company has been successful in many neighborhoods, the app might take its time to fully catch on with its potential audience. That has not stopped VC firms from pouring into the company. Nextdoor’s total funding to date is over $447 million. 7
INVESTOR’S REPORT Part of the smart money’s attraction to Nextdoor would have to be its leadership. Its CEO is Sarah Friar, the ex-CFO of Square Inc. (NYSE:SQ), the ultra-successful finance app founded by Twitter Inc.’s (NYSE:TWTR) Jack Dorsey. While seeing a tested leader at the helm is great, such a quick expected doubling in valuation could raise some eyebrows. If a stock is overvalued at its IPO, it can come down quickly. The best move for this one might be to watch for a slide early on. As it drops, pick a price point you like and buy. Is ThoughtSpot the Most Exciting IPO of 2021? Tech stocks were an exception to the pandemic crash in March. Technology was called upon to connect people while they were apart, whether that meant food delivery or video chats. That made technology special. And it made tech IPOs unique in a time when the IPO market looked somewhat shaky. 2020 gave us the biggest tech IPO of all time in September. Snowflake Inc. raised about $3.4 billion from the IPO. The stock went from $120 to $250 per share in its first two weeks. 2021 holds similar expectations for ThoughtSpot. ThoughtSpot is similar to Snowflake in combining analytics and the cloud. These are two huge trends that are going to be at the center of the digital economy over the next decade. While the tech industry is somewhat amorphous, different companies trying to sort out their roles, there seems to be room for both a Snowflake and a ThoughtSpot. Snowflake’s primary use case is its cloud data storage. ThoughtSpot focuses on data analysis. But that is not the only question to ask if you are considering buying ThoughtSpot stock… 8
INVESTOR’S REPORT Should You Buy ThoughtSpot Stock? ThoughtSpot’s leadership comes from across Silicon Valley’s elite firms – Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google, Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL), and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). That could check the box for leadership and direction. It has been steadily expanding since 2012. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California. But it so far has offices in London, Seattle, Tokyo, India, and Bangalore. ThoughtSpot also has a few big names on its client list: Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT), Fannie Mae, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NYSE:BBBY), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Those won’t be the last of big companies needing new ways to interpret their data. That’s probably why analysts have given ThoughtSpot a favorable outlook since its founding. ThoughtSpot was ranked the top data analytics firm by Gartner in 2020. So at the end, yes, ThoughtSpot could be another Snowflake when it IPOs. Snowflake was a special circumstance where if you could get it under $200, you won’t regret buying. Watch for any financials released over the year to see if your hopes in ThoughtSpot stock can be affirmed. If you can get it at a reasonable price point, this one could be a huge buy. The Kraken IPO Will Level Up Cryptocurrency Kraken is the IPO that’s farthest down the line. The company expects to go public in 2022. This IPO is great news for anyone who wants to make money from cryptocurrency. 9
INVESTOR’S REPORT Why? Because Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange. That means the company is a play on the general cryptocurrency market rather than any single coin. Many coins have gone in and out of favor over the last few years. Even Bitcoin took a big crash after climbing to highs above $60,000. But with Kraken, you could win no matter which coin takes the lead. Kraken’s main competitor is Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), but Kraken was founded first. It was the first cryptocurrency exchange that aimed to be a safe, trustworthy alternative in a crypto market full of scam exchanges. Before, you would give them your money, and they would disappear from existence. Kraken gave investors a chance to invest in Bitcoin safely and quickly. Now, retail traders can invest in Kraken. The company will go public via direct listing, just like Coinbase did earlier this year. Should You Buy Kraken Stock? Even though Bitcoin seemed to take a huge dip halfway through 2021, it’s still up 288% in the last 12 months. Experienced Bitcoin traders see the current dip as a natural part of Bitcoin’s rise. As many new Bitcoin investors back out, the volatility is nothing new to anyone who held Bitcoin in the 2010s. As people move their money in and out, more whales always stick around than the previous cycle. Now, you have companies like Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) who recently said they would offer clients access to Bitcoin funds. Elon Musk bought $1.5 billion Bitcoin in February, though he appears to have done his best to confuse the market with his Twitter activity more in favor of Dogecoin. 10
INVESTOR’S REPORT Of course, while Bitcoin may be today’s benchmark for how other cryptos are received, it does not have to succeed for Kraken to succeed. Bitcoin could be entirely displaced by another cryptocurrency and Kraken would still be an attractive stock. Ultimately, cryptocurrency’s rise in popularity in the last year makes Kraken a buy today. ATAI Leads the Medical Psychedelic Revolution ATAI Life Sciences develops psychedelic drugs for mental health purposes. Their solutions include psilocybin, ketamine, DMT, and MDMA for depression, PTSD, and other health conditions. The company expects to IPO sometime in late 2021 and raise about $100 million. ATAI already had $97 million in cash at the end of 2020. And it will likely have even more as its project get further off the ground. The company’s founders deliver a one-two punch of business leadership and futurism. Christian Angermayer already worked as a banker or investor in over 40 IPO and merger transactions. He previously founded Apeiron Investment Group, focused on fintech and crypto investing. Angermayer’s partner, Lars Wilde, is an active tech and biotech investor. Wilde himself was treated with psychedelics for his own depression. It’s always a good sign when leadership believes in the product. Additionally, their projects keep passing test phases, and they promise to create a huge market for people with addictions or psychological conditions that could benefit from psychedelic therapy… Should You Buy ATAI Stock? Psychedelics is a new industry, though still relatively taboo. Experiments took place in the 1950s, and the results looked promising. 11
INVESTOR’S REPORT But a spike in recreational use in the 1960s may have held back the real medical potential for these substances – most research ended up getting scrapped. We’re headed in the other direction now, however. Research is getting funded. And with mental health concerns rising after the COVID lockdowns, people are looking for solutions like ATAI can provide. Right now, ATAI has 10 running programs to develop treatments. Many could reach over $1 billion in sales with the rise of psychedelic health. In short, this company is a major contender to overtake the psychedelics therapy industry. It could be one of the best long-term holds over time. Will We Get a Databricks IPO or Direct Listing? Databricks makes software that helps businesses manage their data more efficiently. They are the founders of an open-source analytics engine called Apache Spark, and their latest and greatest product is a web-based platform for navigating Spark. This company’s software architecture helps companies save money by avoiding the high cost of rebuilding older data systems over again. The Databricks platform enables data teams to work entirely through the cloud to accomplish this. Today, Databricks software serves more than 5,000 users around the world. To say the least, its products are growing in popularity. Meanwhile, founder Ali Ghodsi has strongly hinted at a public offering for the company in the near future. It could go either way, traditional IPO or direct listing. 12
INVESTOR’S REPORT A new regulation by the SEC allows for direct listings to also raise money with new shares. So it would be a way for Databricks to get to market more quickly while also earning more revenue. Should You Buy Databricks Stock? Databricks has been compared to Snowflake as potentially one of the biggest software IPOs of all time. Snowflake currently holds that record at $3.4 billion. But whether or not it breaks that record, Databricks will be more of a “buy” than Snowflake. That’s because, purely and simply, you will have more opportunity to buy the stock at IPO price than you did Snowflake. Snowflake priced its IPO at $120. But it rocketed immediately to $253 in the first day of trading. That wasn’t anything new. Except in special instances, it used to be that retail investors could only access stocks after IPO, once they’d either soared or plummeted. Now, that’s all changing. With Robinhood now offering IPO access to retail investors, Databricks could be one of the stocks it buys and offers to its users. If that happens, investors will be clamoring for shares of Databricks. This is already a promising young company that could likely serve many different sectors within the IT market. It has many new growth opportunities ahead. Chime Offers the Future of Banking Chime is an online platform offering mobile and banking services from The BanCorp Bank and Central National Bank. 13
INVESTOR’S REPORT This is what some call a “neobank.” It has no brick-and-mortar locations; it’s 100% in the cloud. Along with the convenience of mobile-only interaction, the benefit of these new bank concepts is that their costs are lower. Also, because they are not long- established institutions, they offer higher-yielding savings accounts right now to attract customers. Post-pandemic is a favorable time to be a mobile-first company as people seek to avoid in-person interactions. But more than that, offering more flexible, mobile solutions has been on the financial technology agenda for a long time. A study from Tipalti showed 60% of banking customers want to perform their transactions through a mobile banking app or other single platform. Chime wants to reach that audience. The company plans to IPO sometime in late 2021. Should You Buy Chime Stock? Chime has received plenty of attention from institutional investors in the last few years. Their initial funding round in 2013 brought in just $3.8 million. That has steadily increased each year through 2019, reaching $700 million, then $533 million in 2020. Heavy institutional interest in a stock can point to a promising young company. They’re looking at the trends just like everybody else, and they see FinTech taking off. COVID-19 likely gave this company a boost, as many customers will still be looking for contact-less services. Chime and similar companies would even continue to benefit in any future viral epidemic that might arise. Younger generations will continue to prefer smartphone interaction to anything else. 64% of Gen Z smartphone users claim to be 14
INVESTOR’S REPORT constantly online, while 54% say they feel insecure without their phones on-hand, according to data from Snapchat (NYSE:SNAP). Maybe it’s safe to say that the 54% would probably prefer depositing a check via phone rather than speaking directly to a teller. Then again, who wouldn’t? For these reasons, Chime gets a “buy” rating for its IPO. Impossible Foods IPO Could Rival Beyond Meat Impossible Foods is one of the pioneers of plant-based meat that supposedly tastes something close to real beef. Its main rival, Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND), tested the IPO waters back in 2019 and soared 254% in its first three months. Since the IPO hype died down, Beyond Meat stock is still up 160%. On the hopes that Impossible Foods stock can perform similarly, investors might be all over this one. The rise of Beyond Meat stock confirms plant-based meat is more than a passing fad. People really are shifting their dietary habits to a more plant-based lifestyle. Studies show the number of Americans calling themselves “vegan” more than doubled from 2.3% to 5% between 1995 and 2007… before surging to 14% in 2019. The plant-based trend is about more than vegans. People are looking for more heart- and gut-healthy foods to add to their diet. As they grow more health-conscious, Impossible Foods has a business opportunity. Should You Buy Impossible Foods Stock? Impossible Foods’ success could come down to its competition with Beyond Meat. 15
INVESTOR’S REPORT Beyond Meat was the first mover in this scenario, but there are advantages to coming second. For example, a second mover can observe and capitalize on the mistakes made by a first mover. Beyond Meat, billed as “healthy,” was mentioned in many of the same contexts as Whole Foods. For a while, everything was rosy, until the Whole Foods CEO told the press that Beyond Meat was not “healthy” per se. Impossible Foods, on the other hand, was not ashamed to join the Burger King lineup with the first Impossible Whopper. That’s a massive scaling opportunity. Meanwhile, the company is also backed by Bill Gates, who has been vocal about encouraging plant-based diets and buying up farmland all over the U.S. (242,000 acres, the largest portfolio in America). The company clearly has a few advantages over Beyond Meat with its marketing and scaling opportunities, which is huge for its top line. While Beyond Meat has reached more than 200,000 stores, Impossible Foods’ greatest growth lies ahead. It would be best to get in early. Sweetgreen Wants to Be the Salad King Speaking of plant-based foods, there is nothing more so than a hearty salad. Sweetgreen is a make-your-own salad chain based in Los Angeles, with 121 stores across the United States. They started out in Washingon, D.C. in 2007 before moving their headquarters to L.A. in 2016. The company could be ready to file for IPO in late-2021. They’re working with Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) to get everything together for that. 16
INVESTOR’S REPORT Unfortunately, unlike many of the companies in this report, this one suffered during the pandemic. Much of Sweetgreen’s base includes the “office lunch” crowd, which essentially disappeared while everyone worked from home in 2020. As a result, Sweetgreen had to cut 20% of its workers. Now, many people won’t stop working from home. In fact, many have continued working from home despite lockdown orders being lifted and vaccinations being distributed. But Sweetgreen is putting up a good fight. Should You Buy Sweetgreen Stock? Although it struggled during the pandemic, Sweetgreen has responded by opening its first drive-through location and even investing in delivery-only “ghost kitchens.” Ghost kitchens are really just the entire restaurant without the dining area – also known as “delivery only.” So Sweetgreen may still have a fighting chance in the post-pandemic world. Despite the chips stacked against this company in the COVID-era, it has stood strong and continued to rake in private equity. The company’s last valuation put it at $1.78 billion after raising another $156 million from Lone Pine Capital in January. It reached over $1 billion valuation – “unicorn” status – in 2019 when it raised $150 million from private investors including Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer. Finally, with the push for greater health-consciousness worldwide, Sweetgreen has an opportunity to command the salad niche as 17
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