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Days from announced deal to first trade, US listings since January 2025

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 2026-08-19, from IPO Quiet Period Rules and Timeline.

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Days from announced deal to first trade, US listings since January 2025 — 7 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
bucketdeals_in_bucketshare_pct
under 30 days14829
30 to 59 days10821.1
60 to 89 days6813.3
90 to 119 days5510.8
120 to 149 days295.7
150 to 179 days193.7
180 days or more8416.4
Rows × columns
7 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Days from announced deal to first trade, US listings since January 2025, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
bucket text 7 distinct values
deals_in_bucket number 19 to 148
share_pct number 3.7 to 29 percent

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 , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH deals AS
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        max(listing_date)   AS listed_on,
        min(announced_date) AS announced_on
    FROM global_markets.stocks_ipos
    WHERE listing_date >= '2025-01-01'
      AND listing_date <  '2026-06-01'
      AND final_issue_price > 0
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING announced_on > toDate('2015-01-01')
       AND announced_on < listed_on
)
SELECT
    multiIf(b = 0, 'under 30 days',
            b = 6, '180 days or more',
            concat(toString(b * 30), ' to ', toString(b * 30 + 29), ' days')) AS bucket,
    deals_in_bucket,
    round(100 * deals_in_bucket / sum(deals_in_bucket) OVER (), 1)            AS share_pct
FROM
(
    SELECT
        least(intDiv(dateDiff('day', announced_on, listed_on), 30), 6) AS b,
        count()                                                        AS deals_in_bucket
    FROM deals
    GROUP BY b
)
ORDER BY b

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