General stock market health, here and abroad, and improving investor confidence will prove to be the transmission mechanism for healthy IPO outcomes in 2025.

Encouraging to read of the growing confidence around the 2025 earnings outlook for the S&P500. Goldman Sachs believe 2025 eps growth will be ~11%, following on from ~8% in 2024.

For a hot second there, we all thought 2025 was going to be fairly cruisy. The continuation of a strong bull-run, the end to recession fears, a couple of rate cuts. The biggest concern was perhaps the high premiums on stocks like the Magnificent Seven.