Course Number: FIN501 Module 1 Case Assignment Introduction Upon deciding to go public‚ a company looks into preparing an initial public offering (IPO). There are two IPOs with which a company can utilize: a traditional IPO or the relatively new Auction-based IPO that was made popular by Google. Avaya is currently planning for IPO. “Avaya is a global leader in business communications systems. The company provides unified communications‚ contact centers‚ data solutions and related services
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Understanding IPOs and IPO Scams You don’t have to spend too much time around the stock market to discover that there’s something fishy about many stocks’ initial public offerings‚ (IPOs). The standing joke is that IPO really stands for “It’s Probably Overpriced”. While that may or may not be true in any given case‚ there are a large number of pitfalls awaiting the would-be IPO trader or investor. It’s a case of caveat emptor‚ and in order to be suitably wary you need to understand how an IPO works and
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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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The 15th Financial Case Analysis Contest Analysis Report Case Name： PRADA: TO IPO OR NOT TO IPO: THAT IS THE QUESTION‚ AGAIN Report Title： SWEET ARE THE USES OF IPO Team Name： WINDTRACKER DATE: 16/12/2012 Contents ABSTRACT 1 1. Macro and Industry Analysis 3 1.1 Financing Environment 3 1.1.1 International Monetary Market 3 1.1.2 International Bond Market 7 1.1.3 International Stock Market 9 1.1.4 International Private Equity Market 10 1.2 Industry Analysis
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Considering an IPO? The costs of going and being public may surprise you September 2012 A publication from PwC’s Deals practice Table of contents The heart of the matter 1 Embarking upon the IPO process requires insight into the costs An in-depth discussion 4 The initial public offering Cost of going public Cost of being public 5 12 What this means for your business 27 Assess the readiness of your organization for an IPO to appropriately stage the costs incurred
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In this paper‚ we outline the process by which companies are brought to market in an initial public offering. Our goals here are to delineate the specific steps that are required in an IPO‚ to demonstrate the complex inter-relationships between the advising‚ marketing‚ pricing‚ and trading functions of the IPO process‚ and to highlight the role played by the underwriter in a public offering. When a company wishes to make a public offering‚ its first step is to select an investment bank to advise
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IPO structure in INDIA Initial Public offering or stock market launch or commonly known as ‘IPO’ which takes place in primary market is a type of public offering where the shares of the stock of the companies which seeks the capital in order to finance their investments for expansion of existing structure is sold on a securities market regulated by SEBI (Securities exchange Board of India) & commonly done by privately owned companies which transforms into publicly traded company. Steps involved
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/ Disadvantages of the IPO Decision There are considerable advantages with obtaining equity through the IPO process. There are‚ however‚ some drawbacks that also need to be taken into consideration. Some of the advantages and disadvantages are: Advantages | Disadvantages | * Equity value is established for the firm * Current shareholders can diversify personal portfolios | * SEC requires public disclosure of financial information (transparency) * IPO expenses | * Liquidity of stock
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themselves strapped for cash. Netscape would definitely fall into this category as it increasing felt the pressure and loss of market-share to a growing number of competitors. Many companies find it desirable to "go public" with an initial public offering (IPO) when their equity capital needs increase to the point where the opportunity cost of remaining private and compensating investors for the lack of liquidity becomes too great relative to the lower coat of capital derived from liquid public markets (Netscape
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make a stock offering. Initial public offerings (IPOs) have historically had very large initial first day gains com- pared to the performance of the rest of the market. Historically‚ IPOs were underpriced by roughly 16% according to an industry expert at Stein‚ Roe & Fonham. However‚ in recent months‚ some IPOs have seen first day run- ups of as much as 200 to 400 percent‚ and the trend for the future is likely to increase. Differences between the IPO offering price and the first day closing price
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