Pinterest went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019. Its Class A common stock began trading under the ticker symbol PINS on April 18, 2019, making the flotation a major milestone in the company's transition from venture-backed startup to publicly traded company.
Pinterest had secretly filed for an initial public offering earlier in 2019. The company priced its shares at $19 each, and the stock finished its first trading day at $24.40. The offering valued Pinterest at roughly $12 billion at the time, although its market value later fluctuated with advertising trends and broader technology-stock conditions.
The New York Stock Exchange listing is sometimes confused with the year Pinterest was founded, 2009, or with later corporate events such as the appointment of Bill Ready as CEO in 2022. The key date for the IPO itself is 2019.