IPO Arc: the rise and fall after listingIPO Arc

TEM

AccumulationHealthcare

Tempus AI, Inc. · NASDAQ Global Select · priced Jun 14, 2024 · $411M raised · Over $250M

Offer price
$37.00
Day 1
+8.8%
close vs offer
Peak
+109.8%
trading day 104
Now vs offer
+110.4%
$77.84 on Oct 29, 2026
Off peak
-59.0%
peak to subsequent low
Lock-up expiry
Dec 11, 2024
688d ago · from prospectus

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: Accumulation.

Performance since the IPO

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

TEM 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

Tempus AI, Inc. operates as a healthcare technology company in the United States. It offers the Tempus platform, a closed-loop, full-stack, bi-directional integrations between a clinician's desktop and its laboratory diagnostic capabilities, analytics platform, and repository of multimodal data; and Hub, a clinical application for physicians and other healthcare providers for use in the diagnostics product line as an…

Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Health Information Services
Country
United States
Employees
3,800
Market cap
$14.0B

From the prospectus

Lock-up
180 days
Early release on earnings
Yes
Price-based early release
at 130% of offer
Staggered release
Yes
Float sold in IPO
7%
Locked shares per share sold
13.8×
Backed by
Founder or family
Lead underwriters
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC
Dual-class shares
Yes
Controlled company
Yes
Foreign private issuer
No

Early-release terms: If the Class A closing price is at least 30% above the IPO price for any 10 trading days (not necessarily consecutive) during the period ending on the date of the initial post-offering earnings release for the first completed quarter after March 31, 2024, and on any one trading day after that release, the restricted period expires for 30% of each holder's vested shares. Expiry is on the later of (a) the date both conditions are met and (b) two trading days after the earnings release.

Extracted from the final prospectus on SEC EDGAR.

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

HorizonTEMPeer medianPeers below offer
Day 1+8.8%+12.8%24% n=135
Day 20-1.1%+11.6%30% n=133
Day 60+21.8%+6.3%47% n=129
Day 120+56.7%-4.6%54% n=106
Day 180+43.4%-4.1%52% n=89

Research signals

  • Sell or shortRule U1: sell or short signal for 40 sessions
    Dec 13, 2024 · Slide into the unlock
    Past signals (60, deals of $50M and over): fell 67% · median -11.4% · rallied 25%+ during the hold 32%
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    Short-selling risk: losses on a short position have no limit and can exceed the amount put up; brokers can demand more margin, recall borrowed shares or close the position; borrow fees and any dividends are owed while short and are not in the figures shown; recent IPOs are often hard to borrow and prone to squeezes.

  • Sell or shortRule O1: sell or short signal for 60 sessions
    Nov 12, 2024 · Lock-up overhang
    Past signals (191, deals of $50M and over): fell 69% · median -13.4% · rallied 25%+ during the hold 28%
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    Short-selling risk: losses on a short position have no limit and can exceed the amount put up; brokers can demand more margin, recall borrowed shares or close the position; borrow fees and any dividends are owed while short and are not in the figures shown; recent IPOs are often hard to borrow and prone to squeezes.

  • BuyRule T1: buy signal for 60 sessions
    Nov 12, 2024 · Pre-unlock quality
    Past signals (642, deals of $50M and over): rose 47% · median -2.6% · dropped 25%+ during the hold 35%
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    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.

  • Sell or shortRule R20: sell or short signal for 100 sessions
    Jul 15, 2024 · Day-20 risk tier
    Past signals (118, deals of $50M and over): fell 70% · median -24.6% · rallied 25%+ during the hold 55%
    backtest

    Short-selling risk: losses on a short position have no limit and can exceed the amount put up; brokers can demand more margin, recall borrowed shares or close the position; borrow fees and any dividends are owed while short and are not in the figures shown; recent IPOs are often hard to borrow and prone to squeezes.

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

The rules run independently, so one IPO can carry buy and sell signals at the same time; each label reports only its own rule's history.

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.