Statistics · by year

# Statistics

Counts of filings and offerings per calendar year, from the same database as the rest of the site. 2026 runs to 2026-10-23; its lighter bar in each chart is the year to date.

## IPOs priced per year

 642 at the peak

## First-time registrations per year

 1,010 at the peak

## SPAC registrations per year

 620 at the peak

## All series

 distinct filings; offerings counted by the year of their first filing

| Year | IPOs | First-time | SPACs | Withdrawn | Shelves | Takedowns |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 to date † | 139 | 352 | 143 | 259 | 1,411 | 2,579 |
| 2025 | 262 | 474 | 194 | 323 | 1,767 | 3,388 |
| 2024 | 202 | 392 | 59 | 350 | 1,783 | 3,021 |
| 2023 | 165 | 340 | 28 | 348 | 1,578 | 2,435 |
| 2022 | 138 | 348 | 69 | 443 | 1,479 | 2,104 |
| 2021 | 642 | 1,010 | 620 | 264 | 1,765 | 3,369 |
| 2020 | 399 | 555 | 152 | 237 | 1,599 | 3,551 |
| 2019 | 222 | 376 | 17 | 280 | 1,173 | 2,555 |
| 2018 | 242 | 409 | 21 | 329 | 1,353 | 2,285 |
| 2017 | 196 | 373 | 15 | 271 | 1,424 | 2,683 |
| 2016 | 123 | 335 | 14 | 356 | 1,174 | 2,249 |
| 2015 | 185 | 437 | 29 | 311 | 1,391 | 2,395 |
| 2014 | 300 | 850 | 18 | 325 | 1,367 | 2,300 |
| 2013 | 237 | 676 | 14 | 347 | 1,154 | 2,531 |
| 2012 | 137 | 730 | 10 | 424 | 1,212 | 2,579 |
| 2011 | 147 | 972 | 32 | 462 | 1,150 | 1,987 |
| 2010 | 157 | 819 | 26 | 530 | 1,136 | 1,934 |
| 2009 | 59 | 759 | 7 | 562 | 1,662 | 1,933 |
| 2008 | 73 | 929 | 44 | 640 | 1,230 | 1,797 |
| 2007 | 249 | 732 | 47 | 622 | 1,492 | 3,115 |
| 2006 | 229 | 703 | 27 | 677 | 1,666 | 3,472 |
| 2005 | 202 | 416 | 30 | 640 | 1,639 | 3,538 |
| 2004 | 202 | 840 | 8 | 537 | 1,924 | 3,259 |
| 2003 * | 60 | 257 | 6 | 589 | 1,988 | 2,749 |

IPOs — IPOs priced; First-time — first-time registrations (IPO and First-time registration labels) by year of the first filing; SPACs — SPAC registrations; Withdrawn — withdrawal requests (RW); Shelves — shelf registrations (S-3, S-3ASR, F-3); Takedowns — shelf takedowns (424B5). Distinct filings. † year to date. * 2003 reads low for anything counted from a registration: offerings registered before 4 November 2002 are outside the ledger. Shelf takedowns include debt and other securities, not only shares. See the [methodology](https://equitycapital.markets/methodology).

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Source page: https://equitycapital.markets/stats · Data: U.S. SEC EDGAR · CC BY 4.0