A financial road show is a series of meetings across different cities in which top executives from a company have the opportunity to talk with current or potential investors. They can range from two or three days in one country or continent to marathon, three-week trips to financial centers around the world. The most common reason for conducting financial road shows is an initial public offerings IPO, in which a privately-held company’s shares go public and investors have an opportunity to buy into it. Another reason for road shows is privatization

Privatization

Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...

of a government-owned industry, similar to a private company going public, in which a company seeks investors to buy new stock it is issuing to raise money. Finally, a non-deal road show is purely so that executives can hold discussions with current and potential investors, and nothing is offered for sale.