“…IPO underpricing and long-run poor performance have been the stylized facts of literature [4] since emergence as the first study by (Ibbotson, 1975). Studies unveil mis-valuation, window dressing, earning management (Ali, 2017a;Liu and Wu, 2021;Pandey and Pattanayak, 2022;Peng et al, 2020), strategizing market-timings (Santos, 2017;Wadhwa and Syamala, 2018;Yan and Williams, 2021), camouflaging attempts (Ali, 2017a;Dark and Ghicas et al, 2000) and quid pro quo allocation (Jenkinson et al, 2018;Saengchote and Sthienchoak, 2020) as some of the notable factors driving the information asymmetry and pricing and performance anomaly. In this backdrop, the present study examines the intrinsic factors associated with IPO performance and post-listing resilience of issuer firms.…”