IPO Arc: the rise and fall after listingIPO Arc

HNGE

RecoveryHealthcare

Hinge Health, Inc. · NYSE · priced May 22, 2025 · $437M raised · Over $250M

Offer price
$32.00
Day 1
+17.4%
close vs offer
Peak
+89.2%
trading day 52
Now vs offer
+265.3%
$116.90 on Oct 29, 2026
Off peak
-48.5%
peak to subsequent low
Lock-up expiry
Nov 18, 2025
346d ago · from prospectus · early release Aug 8, 2025

Price since listing

  • Hype
  • Distribution
  • Lock-up window
  • Valley
  • Accumulation
  • Recovery

Volume bars are coloured by lifecycle phase. Markers: lock-up and early release (orange), earnings releases (E), follow-on offerings (F), research signals (rule id and signal; arrow up = buy signal, arrow down = sell or short signal, or sell signal for deals under $50M). Current phase: Recovery.

Performance since the IPO

  • HNGE
  • S&P 500 (SPY)
  • Typical IPO over $250m
  • Middle 50% of those IPOs

HNGE measured from its offer price; S&P 500 from the first trading day. The typical-IPO line is the median of 340 over $250m IPOs from 2014–2025, by trading day.

Company

Hinge Health, Inc. focuses on building a health system that scales and automates the delivery of care using technology. It designs its platform to address musculoskeletal system care (MSK), including acute injury, chronic pain, and post-surgical rehabilitation. The company also provides personalized and automated MSK care through AI-powered motion tracking technology and a proprietary electrical nerve stimulation wea…

Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Health Information Services
Country
United States
Employees
1,437
Market cap
$9.4B

From the prospectus

Lock-up
180 days
Early release on earnings
Yes
Price-based early release
at 120% of offer
Staggered release
Yes
Float sold in IPO
18%
Locked shares per share sold
4.7×
Backed by
Venture capital
Lead underwriters
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc.
Dual-class shares
Yes
Controlled company
No
Foreign private issuer
No

Early-release terms: Employee Stockholders (employees and service providers who are not directors or officers as of the Initial Earnings Release Date) may sell up to about 2.0 million shares beginning on the 90th day after the prospectus date. This requires the Class A closing price to exceed 120% of the IPO price on at least 5 of any 10 consecutive trading days, with at least one of those days after the Initial Earnings Release Date (the first quarterly earnings announcement after the latest financial statements in the prospectus).

Extracted from the final prospectus on SEC EDGAR.

Returns vs offer, compared with 135 IPOs over $250m

HorizonHNGEPeer medianPeers below offer
Day 1+17.4%+12.8%24% n=135
Day 20+31.5%+11.6%30% n=133
Day 60+84.5%+6.3%47% n=129
Day 120+38.5%-4.6%54% n=106
Day 180+0.5%-4.1%52% n=89

Research signals

  • BuyRule T1: buy signal for 60 sessions
    Jul 11, 2025 · Pre-unlock quality
    Past signals (642, deals of $50M and over): rose 47% · median -2.6% · dropped 25%+ during the hold 35%
    backtest

    Buy signals passed on returns relative to IPOs of the same year, size and age, most of which fall after listing. A buy signal can beat its peers and still lose money.

  • BuyRule RL: buy signal for 60 sessions
    Jul 11, 2025 · Pre-unlock risk tier
    Past signals (329, deals of $50M and over): rose 54% · median +1.3% · dropped 25%+ during the hold 22%
    backtest

    Buy signals passed on returns relative to IPOs of the same year, size and age, most of which fall after listing. A buy signal can beat its peers and still lose money.

Rules frozen as v1; signals dated from Oct 29, 2026 are live, earlier ones show what the frozen rules would have flagged. See methodology.

Past figures cover all 4,312 signals the published frozen v1 rules produce on 2014–2025 IPOs, close to close over each signal's holding period. Returns start at the close of the signal session; signals are published after that close, so the first price available to a reader is the next session's. Only 1,192 of 2,368 operating-company IPOs from those years have usable Yahoo Finance price data; most of the rest no longer trade under their IPO ticker (delisted, acquired or renamed), so the figures probably understate declines. These are hypothetical results, not trades: the rules were selected on these same years with the benefit of hindsight, so the figures likely overstate what live signals will do. The live track record is the real test. Trading costs and borrow fees are not included. Past results do not predict future results.

Research signals only, not investment advice. Lock-up terms come from prospectuses; prices from Yahoo Finance and may be delayed or wrong.