Bankers Urge Private Equity to Keep IPO Revival Going in 2026

Wall Street is looking for private equity firms to take a swath of their portfolio companies public in the hopes that the low boil of IPO activity since the pandemic will finally bubble over.

After years of buyout firms pulling different levers to extend asset holding periods, while investors in initial public offerings largely waited out the hangover from the pandemic-era dealmaking binge, sizable companies in sectors from industrials to tech are set to go public in 2026.