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The 2026 stock market has a key factor the dot-com boom lacked
Key takeaways
- There just isn’t a frenzy of fundamentally crappy companies with no future financial prospects going public in today’s market.
- Snider wrote, “While elevated IPO activity has characterized some previous equity market peaks, the number of IPOs year to date is only on pace to reach the historical annual average of 100.
- Snider lifted his 2026 IPO volume forecast to $225 billion from $160 billion.
The 2026 stock market has a key factor the dot-com boom lacked Brian Sozzi · Executive Editor Mon, June 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM GMT+7 2 min read SPAX.PVT There’s an important distinction between the hot backdrop for markets in 2026 and the lead-up to the dot-com crash in the late ‘90s and early 2000s: the quality of initial public offerings.
There just isn’t a frenzy of fundamentally crappy companies with no future financial prospects going public in today’s market.
The analysis: Ahead of potential buzzy IPOs this year from SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), a total of 40 deals worth $28 billion have come to market in 2026, per new data from Goldman Sachs strategist Ben Snider.
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