SGMT 6050 – Mergers and Acquisitions Facebook IPO Facebook‚ a social networking site‚ has grown at an exponential rate that far surpasses market expectation‚ so much so that its growth rate is referred to as the “ Facebook phenomenal”. In 2004‚ Facebook had 1million monthly active users‚ and in comparison‚ it had reached 845million monthly active users in 2011. This phenomenal led to one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) the market had seen in recent years‚ with total capital raised
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Facebook‚ Inc: The Initial Public Offering 1. How does Facebook make money? What are the value drivers of its business? What is its comparative advantage relative to other social networking companies? (1) Facebook makes money from the following three main fields First is the advertising. According to the case‚ we know that the major revenue of Facebook is advertising‚ which took up 98 percent in 2009‚ 95 percent in 2010 and 85 percent in 2011. Facebook uses all information uploaded
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FIN-516 – WEEK 2 – MINI – CASE ASSIGNMENT 1. What is the name of the company? What is the industry sector? General Electric Industrial Goods 2. What are the operating risks of the company? 3. What is the financial risk of the company (the LT debt to total capitalization ratio)? Debt to equity = Total debt ÷ GE shareowners’ equity = 11‚589 ÷ 116‚438 = 0.10 4. Does the company have any preferred stock? (shares/book value/market price and value) GE does not have any preferred
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basic idea of Initial Public Offering (IPO). In this report we try to find out‚ what are steps a company has to go through for IPO‚ according to the Security Exchange Commission (public issue rules 2006). At beginning of this report we give a little idea about IPO‚ then we descried why company go for IPO‚ after then we go through the IPO process step by step‚ and finally we draw a flowchart of IPO process with time allocation. Generally companies go for IPO to raise capital and other reasons are
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The Society for Financial Studies IPO Market Timing Author(s): Aydoğan Alti Source: The Review of Financial Studies‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 3 (Autumn‚ 2005)‚ pp. 1105-1138 Published by: Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598087 Accessed: 10/04/2010 08:09 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms
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Business Finance Policy: FINA 380-01 Dr. William Brent February 3rd 2009 JetBlue Airways: IPO Valuation Table of Content I. Statement of Problem II. Alternative Solutions III. Analysis of the Alternatives IV. Final Recommendation V. Appendix I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM David Neeleman‚ CEO of JetBlue Airways and his management team have realized that JetBlue is still making profit despite the many challenges facing the airline industry after the September
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1. ¿Por qué Air Berlin quiere hacer una IPO? The decision of Air Berlin to launch an IPO is based on three main reasons that go along with the company’s corporate strategy. The company wants to raise gross proceeds of €350 million in order to fund the growth of its aircraft fleet‚ to pay off debt and to invest in sustainable growth. Hereby‚ 50% of net proceeds (total: €290 million) will be invested into purchasing 55 new aircrafts. Air Berlin wishes to expand its fleet by Airbus 320 airplanes
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UVA-F-1415-SSRN v 1.2 JETBLUE AIRWAYS IPO VALUATION My neighbor called me the other day and she said‚ ’You have an interesting little boy. ’ Turns out‚ the other day‚ she asked my son Daniel what he wanted for Christmas. And he said‚ ’I want some stock. ’ ’Stock? ’ she said. ’Don ’t you want video games or anything? ’ ’Nope‚ ’ he said‚ ’I just want stock. JetBlue stock. ’ --David Neeleman‚ CEO and Founder‚ JetBlue Airways It was the first week of April 2002‚ barely two years since the first
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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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PROJECT ON “INVESTMENT IN IPO: AN ANALYSIS” Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration (2006-2008) TABLE OF CONTENTS * ABSTRACT……………………………………………………2 * INTRODUCTION ABOUT IPO………………………………..9 -EVOLUTION AND GROWTH OF INDIAN PRIMARY MARKET -REGULATORY FRAMEWORK -PROCEDURE FOR IPO -BUY BACK OF SHARES -ROLE OF INTERMEDIARIES -IPO GRADING * REVIEW OF LITERATURE
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