JetBlue Airlines‚ a low-fare commercial airline‚ has planned to go public towards the end of 2001. During the process the firm had restructured their initial price from $22- 24 per share to $26 – 28 per share. Advantages / Disadvantages of the IPO Decision There are considerable advantages with obtaining equity through the IPO process. There are‚ however‚ some drawbacks that also need to be taken into consideration. Some of the advantages and disadvantages are: Advantages | Disadvantages
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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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Q1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone ’s structure attempt to reconcile them? 1. Transparency (disclosures of financial statements) The reason why investors are willing to let the required rate of return decrease is the lower concerns about asymmetric information due to the disclosures of financial statements. In the past‚ in order not to be subjected to Investment Company Act of 1940‚ Blackstone once analyzed its operations and concluded that
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The Blackstone IPO 1. If you were a fund LP how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? IPO offered Blackstone certain advantages: - Access to the capital markets‚ as a new source of funds. - Blackstone could also use its own stock for the acquisitions. - It changed compensation structure and provided more incentives to junior management and help to keep top employees motivated long-term. Blackstone decided to adopt the MLP
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through the initial public offering (IPO) process. Specifically‚ on August 8‚ 1995‚ Netscape ’s lead IPO underwriters recommended to the Netscape board to increase the initial offering price to $28 per share from $14 per share‚ a 100% increase. At this new offering price‚ the firm ’s value would be $1 billion‚ raising many eyebrows since their 1995 revenues to date were only $16 million‚ the firm was only 16 months old‚ and they had not yet shown a profit. The question remained: what was the required
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The Google IPO Pre-IPO Initiated from their dorm rooms at Stanford University while they were the Doctoral students major in computer science‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 with the $1‚000‚000 funded by the angel investors. In fiscal 2003‚ Google has generated $961.9 million in revenue and posted $105.6 million in net profit. Head-on competing with another search giant Yahoo.com‚ with 60 million internet users‚ Google has become one of the most powerful search engines
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on IPO’s and to analyze the selected IPO’s in the year 2006. Among various modes of raising fresh capital‚ the equity issue started gaining momentum in India during early 1980’s. It reached the peak during early 1990’s. Many companies made public issue during the year 2006. These companies raised funds by placing a high premium on the issue. Today most of these companies are trading not up to the expectation. The main objective of this study is to know the perception of the investors
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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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Background Initial public offering (IPO) refers to the first sale of company’s securities so as to collect funds from the general public. Securities are brought in the primary market to develop the liquid market of the company. Capital is the most important factor for the development and success of an organization. Capital plays an essential role at every stage of the business. Seed money invested at the start of the business plays the vital role. For a newly established organization capital can
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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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