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Medline Scores Year-topping $6.26 Billion IPO Without the Glitz

Medline’s private equity sponsors bumped up the size of company’s IPO.

Jim Boyle, chief executive officer of Medline Inc., center, rings the Nasdaq opening bell.Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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By Michael Hytha

December 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM UTC

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Hi, it’s Michael Hytha in San Francisco, looking at how a company most familiar to hospital purchasing offices scored the year’s biggest IPO. Also today, the Warner Bros. board has some big concerns about Paramount’s hostile bid and Spirit eyes a merger.

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