2012: An IPO Year to Remember

I'm going to be covering the IPO market today and tomorrow. Today we're taking a look back at 2012 and some of the best and worst performers in the IPO market (hint: Facebook was neither). Tomorrow we'll cover what we can expect in 2013 (hint: here come Twitter). 2012 had the fewest IPOs in three years, but the largest dollar volume since 2007. And you've probably never even heard of the top performers, but each of them would've doubled your money and then some:

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