StubHub IPO Date, Price, Terms, and S-1 Filing
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The StubHub IPO date was Wednesday, September 17th 2025. The stock began trading under the symbol “STUB” on the NYSE at 12:16pm ET. The final IPO price was $23.50.
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Recent StubHub News
09/17/2025: StubHub Opens for Trading
09/08/2025: StubHub Sets IPO Terms
09/04/2025: StubHub to Begin Roadshow as Soon as Mon (09/08)
08/11/2025: StubHub IPO is back on for September
Older news…
About StubHub
StubHub is a ticketing marketplace for sports, concerts, and other live events. It’s the largest ticket resale platform in the world after merging with Viagogo.
Cofounder Eric Baker came up with the idea when his girlfriend wanted to see The Lion King on Broadway, but there was no secondary market to buy tickets.
Later, he shared his idea with Stanford Business School classmate Jeff Fluhr. The duo entered the idea in a class project competition, and Fluhr soon left Stanford to launch the company. Baker rejoined after graduating, but the two cofounders clashed, and Baker was eventually fired.
Stubhub was sold to eBay in 2007 for $310 million. Baker then started Viagogo in the U.K., having not signed a non-compete. More than ten years later, Viagogo bought StubHub from eBay in 2019 for $4.05 billion, right before the COVID-19 pandemic crushed the live ticketing business.
Regulators required the company to sell its international businesses (including the U.K. business) to allow the transaction. Upon the U.K. regulator’s approval of the deal, StubHub and Viagogo merged into StubHub Holdings.
StubHub Holdings filed confidentially for a direct listing IPO in January 2022 for a reported $13 billion. But the IPO market crash scuttled those plans.
StubHub is now moving toward its IPO, expected in April 2025. If well-received, competitor SeatGeek, which previously filed confidentially for an IPO in April 2023, may also move forward.
Here’s a recent podcast episode highlighting the StubHub IPO:
IPO Terms
- IPO Date: Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
- Stock Symbol: “STUB”
- Exchange: NYSE
- Common Stock Offered: 34,042,553 Shares
- Final IPO Price: $23.50
- Opening Trade: $25.35
- Opening Trade Time: 12:16 pm ET
- IPO Price Range: $22-$25
- Raise: $800 million
- IPO Valuation: $8.6 billion
- IPO Brokers: Robinhood, Webull, Fidelity, SoFi
- Lead Underwriters: JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs
StubHub S-1 Filing
Below is the initial S-1 filing from September 8th, 2025.
Get the most up-to-date versions when they are released on the SEC website.
Pre-IPO Ownership
StubHub owners include the founder, Eric Baker, employees, venture capital firms, and individual investors who make up the balance of ownership.
Baker holds 5.2% of the Class A shares, but 100% of the nearly 5 million Class B shares. This gives him 90% of the corporate voting rights, meaning, Baker controls the company alone.
Venture capital and individual investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Madrone Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, Groupe Arnault, Jacob Rothschild, Herbert Kloiber, and Brent Hoberman.
Pre-IPO Valuation
The IPO filing dated September 8th, 2025, sets the StubHub valuation at about $9.3 billion.
The Information reported that StubHub was seeking an IPO of $16.5 billion back in 2024. At first glance, bookrunners have underpriced the deal to generate interest. We’ll get a better sense of the deal’s valuation after the final pricing on the evening of Tuesday the 16th.
We’ll learn about the 2025 IPO valuation when the amended S-1 is released, now anticipated in May or June due to a delay.
StubHub IPO Prelude
The StubHub IPO date was Wednesday, September 17th.
StubHub filed for an IPO in March 2025, but delayed its ambitions due to tariff announcements. The company reignited its IPO plans in late August 2025.
The original expected date was late summer 2024, as reported by The Information reported in April 2024.
Bloomberg later confirmed the IPO date estimate in June 2024 saying the company could IPO as early as July 2024.
However, the Wall Street Journal reported on July 12th, 2024, that StubHub was delaying its IPO due to “choppy market conditions”. It now says the earliest IPO date would be September 2024.
Given the market conditions were not choppy at the time, we can only assume the IPO could not reach its target of $16.5 billion, so they underwriters backed off.
In August 2023, The Information reported the company had hired a new CFO “to try to take it public next year”, attributing the report to “people familiar with the matter.”
Besides The Information’s August 2023 report and Bloomberg’s January 2022 story, there has been little information about a potential StubHub IPO.
StubHub worked with J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs for its previous attempt to go public.
How to Invest in StubHub Stock
Investors can invest in StubHub stock through any U.S.-based online broker. Here is a list of recommended brokers.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Is StubHub Stock Publicly Traded?
Yes. The StubHub IPO was Wednesday, September 17th, 2025.
eBay owned the company for over ten years, but it became a private, independent company in 2020.
What is the StubHub Stock Price?
What is the StubHub Stock Symbol?
The StubHub ticker symbol is “STUB”.
StubHub News Archive
05/23/2025: StubHub’s CEO Isn’t Delusional
04/04/2025: Tariff Turmoil Freezes the U.S. IPO Market
03/21/2025: StubHub S-1 Filing is Live
03/21/2025: StubHub Co-Founder Takes Tortuous Path to IPO
03/06/2025: NYT: StubHub Eyes Potential IPO in 2025
07/12/2024: StubHub Delays IPO Due to “Choppy Market Conditions”
06/10/2024: StubHub Ebitda Is Said to Be $350 Million
04/12/2024: StubHub Plans Summer IPO
08/24/2023: StubHub Hires New CFO With Eyes on 2024 IPO
01/13/2022: StubHub Files for Public Trading Debut Via Direct Listing
09/08/2021: StubHub and Viagogo Merge
05/27/2020: Worst Deal Ever
02/13/2020: Viagogo Completes Acquisition Of StubHub
11/25/2019: Viagogo Acquires StubHub from eBay for $4.05 Billion
Craig Stephens is a former IT professional who left his 19-year consulting career at the IRS to be a full-time finance writer. He started Access IPOs in 2016 to provide a resource for ordinary investors pursuing investment access to IPOs and pre-IPO startups. Craig studied Finance at Michigan State University and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children. Learn more about Craig.
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