IPO's

Investors should be wary of new issues - which means, simply, that these should be subjected to careful examination and unusually severe tests before they are purchased. There are two reasons for this double caveat. The first is that new issues have special salesmanship behind them, which calls therefore for a special degree of sales resistance. The second is that most new issues are sold under "favorable market conditions" - which means favorable for the seller and consequently less favorable for the buyer.

- Benjamin Graham