212018465 Name: Chaowei Jiang ID: 211676326 Word count: 1890 Executive Summary This report aims to investigate whether Australia has the short-run IPO underpricing phenomenon in its stock market‚ followed with a research of the initial returns and the 2-year holding period returns of 52 Australian firms as well as relevant reasons why Facebook’s IPO experienced a failure. Numerous sources of data and information have been utilized. Nowadays‚ the underpricing phenomenon is very common in the American
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Synopsis: Google Inc. Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google maintains an index of websites and other content‚ and makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Its automated search technology enables people to obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its online index. The company’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its web site a top internet destination and
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480 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China In October 2006‚ the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) completed the world ’s largest initial public offering (IPO)‚ listing shares on the Shanghai and the Hong Kong stock exchange‚ raising more than 21 billion dollars (Hill‚ 2011). The ICBC offered this IPO for numerous reasons‚ but foremost was that the ICBC wanted to attract investors with long term perspective; so it targeted foreign investors. Since ICBC already had a presence
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expansion options: Going public through an IPO‚ acquiring or merging with another organization. Going Public through an IPO An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the first time a company issues stock to the public. According to Bateman and Snell‚ “Initial public stock offerings (IPOs) offer a way to raise capital through federally registered and underwritten sales of shares in the company” (2011‚ pg. 255). There are various advantages to going public. An IPO may raise capital‚ reduce debt‚ improve
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needs Euros in six months protect itself from currency fluctuations? DQ 2 What are “Value Added Services”? How does a company measure the overall “value” of such services? DQ 3 what is an IPO? How does an IPO allow an organization to grow financially? When is a merger or an acquisition‚ instead of an IPO‚ more appropriate? FIN 370 Week 5 Discussion Questions DQ 1‚ DQ 2‚ and DQ 3 www.paperscholar.com DIRECT LINK TO THIS STUDY GUIDE: http://www.paperscholar.com/fin-370-week-5-discussion-questions-dq-1-dq-2-and-dq-3/
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Raising Equity Capital When a private company decides to raise outside equity capital to fund there firm‚ they can turn several potential sources‚ these include Angel Investors‚ venture capital firms‚ institutional investors and corporate investors. Angel investors are individual investors who buy equity in small private firms (often friends of relatives) and are usually the first round of outside financing typically receiving a sizeable equity share. Venture Capital Firm (VCF) is a limited partnership
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The Indian M & A market is far from mature ; IPOs are a better bet for most industries ‘The only constant is change.’ This adage holds very well in the corporate sector. Yes‚ it is true that Indian market is in nascent stage and from decades‚ the rule followed in the business is to grow or die. Companies that do not grow tend to stagnate and destroy the shareholders fund. The need of the hour is either going for public or opt for some strategic M&A. Going public for a company is changing from
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making about to raise capital for further growth and recapitalize the ownership structure of TRX thorough Initial Public Offering. The analysis is examined from two scenarios. One is that TRX keep on IPO at lower price of $9 per share; another is that it postpones the IPO in 2006. I would project the IPO price of 2005 and 2006‚ respectively based on the management plan. According to the TRX’s balance sheet and financial data‚ TRX was a very young technology-integration company which founded in 1999
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Abstract Initial Public Offer (IPO) is one of the ways of raising capital for the companies which proposes to expand their operations or they want to start a new venture. As this is the effective way of getting funds from public for the first time for every company which wants to go public‚ that company has to follow a certain set of guidelines which we call as Disclosure and Investor Protection (DIP) guidelines. And the process of coming to IPO has been very important for the company‚
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Public Offer Initial public offer (IPO) as the name suggests refers to when a company goes public or issue shares of the company to the public in order to raise capital for the first time. After the IPO‚ the company gets listed and its shares are traded on stock exchange. Once it gets listed then the permission to trade these shares is granted by shareholders i.e. to whom the shares have been allotted in the IPO. There can be many reasons for bringing out an IPO. First‚ when the company issues new
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