H1 2026 listings by primary exchange: count, dollars, and the unit-offering share

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-26, from IPO Market 2026: The First Half in Numbers.

Rows × columns

4 × 4

Computed

2026-07-26

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT multiIf(primary_exchange = 'XNAS', 'Nasdaq',
               primary_exchange = 'XNYS', 'NYSE',
               primary_exchange = 'XASE', 'NYSE American',
               'OTC markets') AS exchange,
       count() AS listings,
       round(sum(total_offer_size) / 1e9, 1) AS raised_bn_usd,
       countIf(security_type IN ('SP', 'UNIT')) AS unit_offerings
FROM global_markets.stocks_ipos
WHERE ipo_status = 'history'
  AND currency_code = 'USD'
  AND listing_date >= '2026-01-01'
  AND listing_date <= '2026-06-30'
GROUP BY exchange
ORDER BY listings DESC