Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4 What Is An IPO ---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Why Go Public ----------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Getting In An IPO ----------------------------------------------------------- 9 IPO Advantages & Disadvantages ---------------------- 11 Parameters To Judge An IPO ----------------------------------- 14 Understanding The Role Of Intermediaries --
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management decided to embark in a second IPO process. Netflix’s management decided to pursue a public offering given the need to raise additional capital in order to sustain and grow the business. However‚ there are some internal and external factors that can affect a company’s decision to pursue a public offering: • The main internal factor is the funding concern‚ in order to sustain and grow the business‚ a company has different alternatives of funding; an IPO allows a company to raise equity‚ which
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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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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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IPO: Operating in highly concentrated market Higher level of insider ownership and asset Low level of leverage and liquidity BDL Upon listing: * IPO may exhibit a higher level of liquidity - evidence reported by Gleason et al. (2006) suggests that RTO firms tend to have lower liquidity than matched IPOs. * RM firms tend to be smaller and are still operating at a developmental stage Comparison: 1) BDL does not require disclose of the information and undertake no capital raisings
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Google IPO | Understanding IPO Pricing Alternatives | MF Case 5 Group 9: | Angela 1113809238 | Jason 1113809011 | Jeff 1113809018 | Simon 1113809237 | 3/11/2012 | | Table of Contents 1 Google versus Baidu (Dutch Auction vs. Book Building) 1 2 Alternative IPO pricing methods 2 2.1 Book Building 2 2.1.1 Hallmarks of book building: 2 2.1.2 Green Shoe Option 2 Dutch auction 6 2.1.3 Sealed-bid price-discriminatory auction 6 2.1.4 Sealed-bid uniform-price auction 6 3 Why
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Shelley Rushing SeaWorld IPO Week 5 SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.‚ was wholly owned by the Blackstone Group L.P.‚ before SeaWorld went public. SeaWorld owns eleven theme parks in the United States and attracts about 24 million visitors (market watch). As noted above they are in the theme park industry just like Disney and Six Flags with a proven business model and plenty of room for growth. It offers strong consumer value proposition and caters to a broad range of guest from all over the world
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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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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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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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