Robinhood IPO, Should You Buy Robinhood Stock When Offered? An IPO, or initial public offering, is a company's first listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Once a company launches on the stock market, anyone with a brokerage account, or a Robinhood account for that matter, will be able to purchase shares in the company being listed. For many tech companies an IPO has often signaled a huge jump in the number of investors and the price of the company's stock. [...]