memorandum to: from: subject: West TELESERVICE IPO date: May 15‚ 2014 After a careful analysis of the teleservice industry and the players in the space‚ we chose the following companies as comparable to West Teleservice: SITEL Corporation‚ APAC Teleservices and Precision Response Corporation. West Teleservice is an integrated teleservice provider whose business model is based on recurring large volume application with focus on state of art technology‚ quality of service‚ long term
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Initial Public Offering: Gevo‚ Inc. FIN516: Advanced Managerial Finance Janice Jensen February 9‚ 2014 An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is when a private company sells its first stock to the public. This is usually done by company’s who are smaller and or “younger” looking to raise capital in order to expand. It can however be done by larger private companies that want to become public. IPO’s can be a risky investment‚ as the investors do not know how the stock will do on its first day
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IPO Valuation FIN-605 Md. Miran Hossain College of Business Colorado State University 10 September‚ 2012 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of going public? Discuss the IPO process. The Advantages of Going Public Financial Benefit The financial benefit in the form of raising capital is the most distinct advantage of going public. Capital can be used to fund research and development‚ fund capital expenditure or even used to pay off existing debt. Moreover‚ once the company is
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emgs IPO priced at NOK 135 per share emgs priced its IPO at NOK 135 per share‚ at the top of the revised price range of NOK 125135 per share; Very strong investor interest‚ from both retail and institutional investors‚ results in the offering being approximately 13x subscribed at the IPO price; Total offering of 19‚623‚200 shares‚ representing approximately 26.7% of emgs’ outstanding share capital following the IPO; Over-allotment option granted to the managers for an additional 1‚850‚000 shares
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An IPO is the first public sale of a company’s stock. The shares are sold on a securities exchange‚ and as a result‚ a private company becomes a public company. This dissertation will examine the reasons for using an IPO and some of the advantages and disadvantages of an IPO. It will also examine the procedure that is undertaken to execute the IPO. Lastly‚ Facebook’s recent IPO will be used to help delineate some of the concepts of an IPO. A company uses an IPO because once its stock is listed
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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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Initial Public Offering is a kind of public offering where a company sold shares of stock to the general public‚ on a securities exchange for the first time. Companies use initial public offerings to drive expansion capital up in order to make profits from the investment of early private investors possibly and to become as publicly traded enterprises. Shares are sold by a company without a requirement of repaying the capital to its public investors. After the IPO‚ money passes between investors
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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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Background Facebook’s IPO (Initial public offering) is one of the world’s largest initial stock offerings‚ raising $16 billion for the company. Facebook made its stock market debut on May 18 with an initial offering price of $38 per share‚ but closed at $38.23‚ a slight 0.61 per cent up (Associated Press‚ 2012). The typical big first-day pop in the share price seen in other technology companies’ IPOs that many investors had expected did not materialise. Instead‚ its stock price has tumbled since
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Metals has take into consideration the IPO proposal of David Clark‚ president of Eskimo Pie Corporation‚ rather than selling the company to Nestle Foods (Case Study‚ 2001). This analysis will identify the current value of the company at a stand-alone value and explain why Nestle Food would want to buy this company and the synergies involved for their reasoning. We will also discuss who will benefit if Reynolds Metals were to sell to Nestle or were to create an IPO. Finally we will provide a recommendation
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