This morning’s IPO, athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), came public and shares have roughly doubled today.  The price range was $14.00 to $16.00, but the demand for the deal was a premium and it priced 6.286 million shares at $18.00.  With 10-minutes to the close this was up 90% at $35.60 on more than 8.7 million shares.

This may be the sort of thing the IPO markets have been waiting for, particularly as we have hardly had any real IPO’s over the last month or so.  Here was our brief preview.  After a little ‘lulu’ IPO maybe these companies with all lower case letters in the name are the big trend………

If you are interested in other upcoming IPO’s:
RiskMetrics Group filed for its IPO last night.
MAKO Surgical may be a good fix for the knees.
Turner Investments has filed as an asset manager.
EXCO’s XP is coming out as an oil and gas MLP, great dividend.
Pogo Jet is flying out on its way too, former AMR head runs it.

Jon C. Ogg
September 20, 2007

The selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 943,023 shares at the initial public offering price.  Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch were the joint book-runners, and Piper Jaffray and Jefferies are the listed co-managers.

athenahealth in short is a web-based doctor and medical practice revenue cycle management solution.  In other words, it aims to increase collections, receive payments faster, and gain visibility into claims.

Jon C. Ogg
September 20, 2007