New Delhi, March 26 -- After a muted 2025, the US IPO market is roaring back. Goldman Sachs forecasts that IPO proceeds will quadruple to about 160 billion dollars in 2026, with the number of deals roughly doubling to around 120 listings. High-profile private giants such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems sit atop the potential pipeline.

For investors in US stocks, this "IPO blitz" offers new opportunities-but also familiar risks. Here are six practical ways to navigate it.

This year's record dollar proceeds are expected to be driven by a relatively small handful of very large technology and AI listings, even as software and healthcare dominate the IPO count by volume. That means the IPO calendar is barbelled...