August 11, 2020
Fortune: Rocket Companies IPO: Stock of Quicken Loans parent company rises almost 20% following debut
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2020-08-06 00:00:00, Jen Wieczner, Fortune
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After rising slowly after that, Rocket Companies stock, trading under the ticker symbol "RKT" on the NYSE, surged as high as $22.76 a share in the mid-afternoon, only to quickly give back some of those gains, closing up nearly 20%.
The company was founded by Dan Gilbert, a billionaire entrepreneur who remains Rocket Companies' chairman and is also the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
Shares of Rocket Companies, the parent of Quicken Loans and Rocket Mortgage, rose as much as 26% Thursday afternoon on its first day of stock market trading.
Even as the economy has suffered during the coronavirus pandemic, Rocket Companies has continued to grow, originating $72.3 billion in loans in the second quarter of 2020, up 40% from the first three months of the year, and more than double the amount during that period in 2019.
"If the COVID-19 pandemic leads to a prolonged economic downturn with sustained high unemployment rates, we anticipate that real estate transactions will continue to decrease.
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