Porsche’s Debut Became Out to be a Ho-Hum. Volkswagen Did not Have Such Good fortune.

Sometimes markets can be funny.

Porsche

stock was rising while

Volkswagen

which owns most of

Porsche

stock, was falling. That reaction is likely to confuse some investors.

The IPO of Dr Ing HC F Porsche, which is better known as just Porsche, is now complete and Porsche shares have begun trading under the very appropriate, and cool, stock symbol “P911.”