THE TIMES 100 : VIEW FROM THE STREET : Biggest IPOs
California-based firms ranked by dollar amount of offering.
Offering Rank Company ($ millions) 1 Foodmaker 180.0 2 Dames & Moore 115.0 3 Pref. Income Opportunity 108.8 4 Ventritex 84.6 5 Gilead Sciences 75.0 6 Providential 67.2 7 North American Mortgage 63.3 8 Pyxis Corporation 56.0 9 Protein Design Labs 52.5 10 Matrix Pharmaceutical 52.5 11 Callaway Golf 52.0 12 PeopleSoft 51.0 13 Trident Microsystems 51.0 14 Cheesecake Factory 46.7 15 Media Vision Technology 45.0 16 Amylin Pharmaceuticals 44.8 17 McAfee Associates 41.6 18 Abbey Healthcare Group 41.3 19 Endosonics 41.3 20 Ligand Pharmaceutical 41.3 21 ChipSoft 41.2 22 Xircom 40.6 23 Target Therapeutics 40.5 24 HS Resources 39.9 25 Curaflex Health Services 39.0 26 Am. Residential Holding 39.0 27 Electronics for Imaging 38.3 28 Fritz Companies 38.3 29 Stac Electronics 36.0 30 Catalina Marketing 36.0 31 First Pacific Networks 36.0 32 Platinum Software 35.0 33 Authentic Fitness Corp 33.6 34 Plaza Home Mortgage 32.5 35 Walker Interactive Sys. 31.5 36 Biosys 31.2 37 Corvas International 30.0 38 Valence Technology 28.8 39 Synopsys 28.8 40 Frame Technology 28.0 41 Netframe Systems 27.0 42 Kennedy-Wilson 26.3 43 Triconex 26.0 44 Chemtrak 26.0 45 Dura Pharmaceuticals 25.0 46 Network Computing Dev. 24.0 47 Abaxis 23.9 48 Day Runner 23.6 49 Exstar Financial Corp. 22.3 50 Summit Care 22.1 51 Learning 22.0 52 Glacier Water Services 22.0 53 SciClone Pharmaceuticals 21.8 54 Meadowbrook Rehab. 20.2
Source: STAR Services.
