Last Saturday — October 15, 2016 — was the one-year anniversary of the First Data IPO.
Now, admittedly, calling 2016 a “first year” for First Data is something of a stretch. First Data was first incorporated in 1971, so it is actually 45 years young. And it wasn’t even technically First Data’s first year as a publicly traded company either. From 1992 to 2007, it traded on the NYSE before being taken private by KKR.