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Why Blackstone Won't Skyrocket Today
Neck-on-the-line prediction of the day, if not the decade, comes from Peter Cohan at Bloggingstocks, who put a post up yesterday evening headlined "Blackstone's units to triple tomorrow, close at $90". If he's right, he will deserve some serious accolades, and will almost certainly attract millions of dollars for his firm, Peter S Cohan & Associates. On the other hand, if he's right, pigs are likely to start flying, and there's a good chance that the stock will cease trading after they lift Steve Schwarzman, on a litter, to a heavenly bed.
Cohan's stated reason for his ultrabullishness is silly:
The value of these units is likely to skyrocket tomorrow when they begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The reason is that the offering is seven times oversubscribed -- that means that orders for Blackstone's units exceed supply by a factor of seven!
Cohan knows, or should know, that the main reason that the offering is oversubscribed is, well, that it's oversubscribed. Let's say you want 1,000 shares. You know that if you put in an order for 1,000 shares, then you'll be scaled back to much less than that. So instead you put in an order for 5,000 or 10,000 shares, in the hope that come this morning, you'll actually receive the 1,000 shares you wanted in the first place.
There's certainly no reason to believe that a lot of demand for BX at $31 means there's any demand at all for it at $90. I daresay the stock will rise today: with 17 underwriters on this deal, there will be a lot of egg on a lot of faces if it doesn't. But it's not going to triple, or even double.
(Via Gaffen)
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