The IPO Insider

Insiders can't sell yet. Here's the day they can.

Every IPO comes with a lockup: 90 to 180 days when founders, employees and early backers are barred from selling. When it ends, shares held back since the listing can reach the market at once. The Unlock Clock puts every major expiry for the next 90 days in one table.

The Unlock Clock

Lockup expiries over the next 90 days

CompanyUnlocksDays left
Oct12
Oct27
Nov41
Nov58
Dec73
Dec88
Names, dates and share counts are in the PDF.

Sample layout. The PDF carries the full table.

How a lockup runs

The unlock date is printed in every prospectus. Few people read that far.

  1. Day 0

    The IPO prices

    A small slice of the company starts trading. Insiders keep the rest under a signed agreement not to sell.

  2. Days 1 to 180

    The lockup holds

    Usually 180 days, sometimes 90. The float stays thin because most of the company can't trade yet.

  3. Unlock

    The restriction lifts

    Shares held back since the listing can come to market on a date that was public from day one.

Some deals release shares early, for example once the stock holds above a set price after an earnings report. The PDF flags those deals and what triggers them.

What's in the PDF

The table

Every major US lockup expiry over the next 90 days, with the IPO date, lockup length and unlock date side by side.

The size of each unlock

Shares freed as a share of today's float, so a large unlock stands apart from one that barely registers.

The early-release terms

Which deals can unlock ahead of schedule, and the price or earnings condition that sets it off.

The next 90 days of unlocks, in one table.