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S-1 JOURNAL WEEKLY|The Standing Watch: US IPOs, checked against the S-1

We found no 8-K last week showing something a prospectus specifically described actually happening

October 5, 2026 | prices as of the October 2 close

For the week of September 28 to October 2, we checked the 8-Ks filed by the companies we follow against the prospectus each one used when it went public. We found none showing that something the prospectus had specifically described later happened or changed. We do not count general statements, such as that the company may need to borrow. We did not check the insider holding and sale filings one by one.

The filings made during the week are under Last week's filings below.

How the scoreboard moved

On our scoreboard, $1,000 put into each of the eleven companies in the Recent listings group at its first-day closing price comes to $10,236 as of the October 2 close. For Freenome, we count from the day its SPAC merger closed. A week earlier, at the September 25 close, the total was $10,142. The same amount put into the S&P 500 on each of those listing days would be $11,693 as of the October 2 close.

The table says only what the number became. It does not say why.

Last week's filings

Filings made from September 28 to October 2 by the companies we follow in our articles, answer checks and scoreboard.

Tesla

Sept. 29, 8-K: signed three new unsecured credit facilities. They are a $20.0 billion three-year term loan facility, an $8.0 billion five-year revolving facility and a $2.0 billion 364-day revolving facility. The term loan can be drawn during the 18 months after the closing date, and the undrawn commitments are automatically reduced to $10.0 billion one year after closing and to $5.0 billion at 15 months. No loans were outstanding as of September 29, and Tesla says it does not currently plan to draw on them in 2026. It also terminated its existing $5.0 billion revolving credit agreement.

Oct. 2, 8-K: the third-quarter production and deliveries release. Tesla produced 464,391 vehicles, delivered 486,532 and deployed 13.7 GWh of energy storage products. It says it will post third-quarter financial results on October 21.

Snowflake

Oct. 2, 8-K: reported a private offering of convertible notes that bear no regular interest, $2.0 billion due 2029 and $1.75 billion due 2031, issued under indentures dated October 1. The initial purchasers have options to buy up to an additional $300 million of the 2029 notes and $250 million of the 2031 notes. Net proceeds were about $3.70 billion before any exercise of those options. Of that, it used about $548.3 million to repurchase part of its convertible notes due 2027 and about $383.5 million to pay for capped call transactions, which are generally expected to reduce potential dilution when the notes convert, and/or to offset cash payments above principal, up to a cap.

Pricings and listings

None among the companies we follow. Bamboo, SB Energy, Oura, Syntiant and CoVolt Power, which have filed but not yet priced, made no filings during the week.

New S-1 and F-1 filings

We did not take up any as an article subject. We set aside SPACs, filings by already-listed companies and small offerings from the start, and passed on the rest.

Other

Listed companies we follow, namely Jersey Mike's, Cerebras, Snowflake, Alphabet, Meta, Airbnb and SpaceX, had filings on insiders' holdings, changes in them and planned sales. We do not list them one by one.

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