Running Header: JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Borislav Belenov‚ Wade Brashear‚ Jamie Clausen‚ Paul Collier‚ Nicole Hagan and Melissa Lein Managerial Finance Chadron State College Professor Steve Stoner May 2009 David Neeleman is the founder of JetBlue Airways‚ which began under the name of “New Air” in 1999. Many JetBlue executives were previously employed by Southwest Airlines‚ a competitor in the area of low cost travel. However‚ Mr. Neeleman’s vision was
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Case study—JetBlue airways IPO valuation Introduction: As a leader of airways industries‚ JetBlue is successful because of professional services and a good management team. In 2002‚ JetBlue became a public company. Despite the fact that US airline industry had witness 87 new airline failures over the previous 20 years‚ Jetblue overcame difficulties and expressed confidence in the bright future. Before going public Before going public in 2002‚ JetBlue has outstanding advantage in the whole
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JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Summary In July 1999‚ David Neeleman announced his plan to launch a new airline that would bring “humanity back to air travel.” Despite the fact the airline industry had 87 new-airline failures in U.S. over the past 20 years. Neeleman’s plan convinced a group of investors and quickly raised $130 million from venture-capital community. This is the way JetBlue Airways established. With its strong capital base‚ JetBlue acquired a fleet of new Airbus A320 aircraft and focused
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Summary This report discusses whether and how JetBlue should list its shares on public from several angles. Two principal incentives prove that the IPO process could be inevitable‚ even without an optimal offering price‚ and valuation models including multiples comparison and income analysis imply the firm may be underpriced. Given the situation and all assumptions‚ an increment in either offering size or price is suggested. 2 SWOT and Background JetBlue started by following Southwest’s approach of
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Problems Identified By The Narasimham Committee 1. Directed Investment Programme : The committee objected to the system of maintaining high liquid assets by commercial banks in the form of cash‚ gold and unencumbered government securities. It is also known as the statutory liquidity Ratio (SLR). In those days‚ in India‚ the SLR was as high as 38.5 percent. According to the M. Narasimham’s Committee it was one of the reasons for the poor profitability of banks. Similarly‚ the Cash Reserve Ratio-
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sale of stock by a private company to the public. The private company as an issuer entrusts an underwriter firm or a group of firms who help the issuer going public. IPOs are such a big deal because any investors who hold stock at initial offering price would make a significant capital gain when the company goes public. Numerous cases of new issues have proved that investors rise in value. Mr. Schwartz (1999) listed some advantages of going public in his article. For instance‚ going public could
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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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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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“JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth” Samuel Natkovitch I. Introduction The airline industry is one of a highly complex and unpredictable nature. “JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth” presents a case about a brand that can attest to this fact‚ a brand that also happens to be one of the big airline corporations of America- JetBlue. Former Executive Vice President of Morris Air‚ David Neeleman‚ founded JetBlue in 1999. Neeleman entered the market with 10 planes and in just under 6 years‚ the JetBlue fleet
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JetBlue IPO WACC The estimation of cost of capital for JetBlue proved to be a difficult process. Considering the company has an unfavorable capital structure‚ due to the fact that they are acquiring a large number of aircrafts‚ simply taking the weights of debt and equity are not acceptable. In order to accurately judge the discount rate the multiples method is necessary. The comparison was to a leading low-fare airline company‚ Southwest. Another critical point is that taking the book
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