To: JetBlue Management Team From: Subj: JetBlue IPO Price Recommendation Date: April 11‚ 2002 Introduction JetBlue is a company that was founded on not accepting the status quo with regard to how airline travel is “supposed to be”. Recent history shows that low-fare airlines are gaining momentum‚ and JetBlue’s business model sets us apart- our fleet is newer‚ more reliable and efficient. We offer the lowest cost per available seat mile than any other U.S. airline‚ and we do it while maintaining
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current financing as a privately held company. Goldman is now faced with the stark decision of whether or not an IPO would be the next plan of action for the company. II. Alternative Solutions: 1. Comparable Companies Analysis 2. Shelf registration III. Analysis of Alternatives: Comparable Companies Analysis A logical approach to determining the price of Goldman’s IPO is the Comparable Company Analysis. It essentially is a process used to evaluate the value of a company using
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Eaton’s must restructure itself in order to continue being a major player in the retail industry. Problem Statement: Eaton’s must figure out its value as a business in order to determine an IPO price range. They must choose an appropriate valuation method in order to determine appropriate figures. If the IPO is priced too high or too low‚ it can result in further losses during the restructuring process. Five Forces: The retail sales industry is usually not one that is attractive to most people
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1 Executive Summary This report discusses whether and how JetBlue should list its shares on public from several angles. Two principal incentives prove that the IPO process could be inevitable‚ even without an optimal offering price‚ and valuation models including multiples comparison and income analysis imply the firm may be underpriced. Given the situation and all assumptions‚ an increment in either offering size or price is suggested. 2 SWOT and Background JetBlue started by following Southwest’s
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Document View Page 1 of 3 Return to JRUL databases | Help 0 marked items Databases selected: Multiple databases... Document View « Back to Results Document 1 c d e f g Mark Document Publisher Information Abstract ‚ Full Text Survey: Innovation in industry: Easy way out Nicholas Valery. The Economist. London: Feb 20‚ 1999.Vol.350‚ Iss. 8107; pg. S22‚ 2 pgs » Jump to full text » Translate document into: Select language » More Like This - Find similar documents
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Course Number: FIN501 Module 1 Case Assignment Introduction Upon deciding to go public‚ a company looks into preparing an initial public offering (IPO). There are two IPOs with which a company can utilize: a traditional IPO or the relatively new Auction-based IPO that was made popular by Google. Avaya is currently planning for IPO. “Avaya is a global leader in business communications systems. The company provides unified communications‚ contact centers‚ data solutions and related services
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Executive Stock Options and IPO Underpricing Michelle Lowry• Smeal College of Business Penn State University E-mail: mlowry@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-1483 Kevin J. Murphy Marshall School of Business University of Southern California E-mail: kjmurphy@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6553 July 31‚ 2006 Abstract In about one-third of US IPOs between 1996 and 2000‚ executives received stock options with an exercise price set equal to the IPO offer price (rather than a price determined by the market)
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IPO refers to a situation when a company issues common stock or shares to the public for the first time. The process generally involves one or a syndicate of investment banks. The sale of shares in an IPO may take several forms. In a firm commitment agreement‚ the bank acts as an underwriter by purchasing the securities from the issuer at a mutually agreed price with a view of reselling them to the public at a margin. For the issuer‚ it is the safest but the most expensive type of agreement. It
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The IPOS Cycle: IOPS cycle is an organized procedure through which all processing within a computer takes place. And it takes place through four operations. 1. Input 2. Processing 3. Output 4. Storage 1. Input Operation: In the input operation‚ data is entered or otherwise captured electronically and is converted to a form (machine language) that can be processed by the computer. 2. Processing Operation: In the processing operation‚ the data is manipulated to process
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AUGUST 2002 A Review of IPO Activity‚ Pricing‚ and Allocations JAY R. RITTER and IVO WELCH* ABSTRACT We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity: why firms go public‚ why they reward first-day investors with considerable underpricing‚ and how IPOs perform in the long run. Our perspective is threefold: First‚ we believe that many IPO phenomena are not stationary. Second‚ we believe research into share allocation issues is the most promising area of research in IPOs at the moment. Third
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