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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Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4 What Is An IPO ---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Why Go Public ----------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Getting In An IPO ----------------------------------------------------------- 9 IPO Advantages & Disadvantages ---------------------- 11 Parameters To Judge An IPO ----------------------------------- 14 Understanding The Role Of Intermediaries --
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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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FI516 IPO Paper Identify the company and its industry. Pandora Media‚ Inc. is an internet streaming radio service used by more than 80 million listeners. Pandora‚ which has a catalog of 800‚000 songs from more than 80‚000 artists‚ has roughly half the market for Internet radio in 2010‚ according to a study published in November by Ando Media. Though the service is wildly popular‚ it has yet to make a profit. The Internet radio station generates playlists based on a user ’s favorite artist or
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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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revenues grow into the billions ever since. eBay acts an intermediary between sellers and buyers to provide a safe and secure environment for people to browse‚ buy or sell products that are new‚ used or hard to find. The system works just like a real auction where bids are placed on products‚ with the highest bid winning when the clock stops. eBay puts both parties in touch with each other without ever touching the product and when the deal has gone through‚ eBay takes between 7% and 18% of the sale price
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analysis on the recent announcement of Twitter’s IPO. The tweet heard around the world came yesterday afternoon stating‚ “We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.” Immediately Wall Street was running wild with speculation over what the company could be worth‚ who the underwriters were‚ and whether or not Main Street investors would get fleeced as badly on this IPO as they all did on Facebook. The analysts in
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teachers here at E.I.S. were willing to give extra points to students assisting the event. As soon as this incentive was announced‚ students‚ including myself‚ rushed to purchase tickets. Another popular and profitable fund raising activity has been auctions‚ where goods and even services‚ such as a date with a famous personality‚ are auctioned to the highest bidder. Supporters are happy to donate large sums of money to the charity in exchange for a gift or reward. Last year the Help Animal Lives Today
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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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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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