of better returns. Most of the respondents feel better investing in IPO’s than investing on shares in secondary market‚ because they are satisfied with the returns and the security to their investment. INTRODUCTION Initial public offering (IPO) refers to the offering of stock in a company to the public through the public market. In financial markets‚ an initial public offering is the first sale of a company ’s common shares to public investors. The company usually issues primary shares‚ but
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Characteristic of IPO Initial Public Offering (IPO) has lots of unique characteristics which including short-term underpricing‚ price stabilization‚ and investment banks. IPOs are always underpriced which means the pricing of IPOs often below its market value. This is because of concerns relating to liquidity and uncertainty about the level at which stock will trade. The lesser the liquid and uncertainty about the shares are‚ the more underpriced they will have to be in order to compensate investors
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With the recent Facebook IPO‚ many analysts and Wall Street experts are wondering‚ Is Facebook going to be a relevant Social Media company over the next 5-10 years? Facebook is a free service to its users that allows its customers to keep in touch with friends and family and makes money through advertising. (Lewis‚ 2010) But if 44% of its users never click on those ads‚ will advertisers continue to spend a portion of its marketing budget on Facebook advertising? (Reisinger‚ 2012) Facebook is the
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The Google IPO Pre-IPO Initiated from their dorm rooms at Stanford University while they were the Doctoral students major in computer science‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 with the $1‚000‚000 funded by the angel investors. In fiscal 2003‚ Google has generated $961.9 million in revenue and posted $105.6 million in net profit. Head-on competing with another search giant Yahoo.com‚ with 60 million internet users‚ Google has become one of the most powerful search engines
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.COM Failure Marketing and the .COM Bust Why Marketing? The .COM bust‚ the .COM “bubble”‚ the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”‚ happened more than a decade ago‚ but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now‚ with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back‚ it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves
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Baidu: Beating Google at Its Own Game Competitive advantage and sustainability * 60% market share‚ double that of Google Inc. in China * First mover advantage- developed a search engine that provided information in local Chinese languages * Offers searches in Chinese * Focused solely on Chinese * Knowledge of Chinese language and culture * Algorithms are different and better suited * Direct sales forces of 3‚000 people in 7 cities to better serve its customers
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and to create the best business model. Nevertheless‚ we think that as an IPO company‚ Blackstone must fully disclose its financial statements and it is also the must-pay and tradeoff to lower the costs of capital. This is also the problem that Blackstone couldn ’t wholly resolve from purely adjusting the financial structure. 2. Risk of employees resigning triggered from the change of compensation package Before going IPO‚ underwriters raised the concerns from unitholders: ‘though it will bring
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1.0 Overview: Baidu vs. Google Traditionally world compare China to a slumbering dragon. And for West or other developed countries‚ this is used as a great opportunity to access a great volume of inexpensive labours and huge manufacturing capabilities. Interestingly‚ now the dragon comes fully awake and the rest of the world had better watch out. Same goes to Google when China discovering Baidu-often referred to as China’s Google in 2000. Is this China’s Google ready for what the Google has become
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Case (1)：The Blackstone Group’s IPO 1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone’s structure attempt to reconcile them? 2. If you were an LP in Blackstone‚ how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? 3. Would you rather be a unitholder in Blackstone or an LP? 4. As a potential employee‚ how you evaluate the Blackstone compensation package against a commensurate offer from a similar large-scale private equity firm that
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According to Brau and Fawcet (2004)‚ the most common reason CFOs choose to provide an IPO on their firm is to create public shares for use in future acquisitions. While Rosetta Stone may not have immediate acquisition plans‚ the public offering of their shares will provide new capital for them to continue to expand. Only 5% of their revenue comes from outside of the United States‚ and with increased capital from an IPO‚ Rosetta Stone can look to pursue new markets (Schill‚ 2009). Whether they plan to
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