Intriguing IPOs: Novelis Inc. (NVL)

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The Forge of Vulcan, Theodoor van Thulden, 1649, oil on canvas (Palais Huis ten Bosch)

You never know what will fall from the IPO tree after a stiff breeze. So far, the 2024 harvest has been much more fruitful than 2023. Of the 77 companies that have gone public so far this year, 30% have produced returns better than the S&P 500’s 11.4% year-to-date performance, compared to the 12% of IPOs that beat the market in 2023.

I realize that this is probably the whims of the market, but I do think there is something to the quality of companies going public this year compared to last year.

This week, a couple of interesting companies are going public, which I may touch on later. But one I wanted to focus on, in particular, is Novelis. After all, there aren’t many companies going public that have the label “world’s largest” attached to them.

Let’s dig in.

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