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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Today I will talk about Facebook; it’s a very topical subject particularly since Facebook submit paperwork to regulators for an IPO‚ 1 month ago. But let’s start with a little part of history Histoire «From Harvard dorm room to all Canadian and US University : Mark Zuckerberg‚ 28‚ founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students‚ including Facemash‚ where you could rate people’s attractiveness
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IPO Process Stock offered to public Approval by SEBI Draft Offer document filed with SEBI Negotiate the deal Investment Bankers (Underwriters) Company
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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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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 was not public? Case (1)：The
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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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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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“ SUCCESS is where PREPARATION and OPPORTUNITY meets ” -Bobby Unser WE PROUDLY PRESENT TO YOU A JOURNEY TO GREATNESS “INVEST more so that you will not run out of money ” - Lee Ka Shing “ Always invest for the long term ” - Warren Buffett “The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities ” – Jack Ma “Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course ” - George Soros raising over $210 million in share capital. Final share price was $14 per
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United Parcel Service’s IPO Question 1: What are the key success factors and risks for UPS given its business strategy? In the package-delivery industry timely‚ accurate and competitively priced services are the key success factors. With over 13 million packages delivered each business day‚ UPS had drastically invested in technology‚ which had played an important role on its growth. UPS’s well developed computer systems had ensured to UPS customers an excellent service which fulfils its customer
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ASSIGNMENT on IPO PROCESS OF BANGLADESH Course Title: Financial Institution and Market Course Code: FIN 335 Submitted to Md Lutfur Rahman Assistant Professor East West University Date of Submission- August 1‚ 2012 Submitted by Subha Sayeed 2010-1-10-082 Md. Shazzad Hossain 2010-1-10-183 (Sec-3) Sharmin Sultana 2008-3-30-047 Sazzad Khan Mahmud 2009-2-10-107(Sec-3) LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL August 1‚ 2012‚ Md. Lutfur Rahman Assistant Professor East West University
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