This case concerns the Initial Public Offering of Google, Inc. in August 2004. Instead of using the traditional best-efforts style IPO, Google used a Dutch Auction to allow small investors to buy in on the IPO. This case is intended to be used in an advanced corporate finance class. It can be taught in two hours of class time and should take about two to three hours of outside preparation by the students.
Google, the famous Internet search provider, filed its prospectus for an initial public offering on April 29. The company hopes to raise $2.7 billion, which would be the largest Internet company IPO ever and the first since the dotcorn bubble burst. The Google IPO will have an unusual auction-based structure that may influence future initial public offerings. After having resisted the lure of going public for so long, Google may have to face changes in its culture and operations as a result of its IPO. Under the system outlined by Google, potential investors will register with the banks underwriting the offering, indicating how many shares they want to purchase and the price they are willing to pay. Using the information and other factors, Google and its bankers will determine a "clear...
This case concerns the Initial Public Offering of Google, Inc. in August 2004. Instead of using the traditional best-efforts style IPO, Google used a Dutch Auction to allow small investors to buy in on the IPO. This case is intended to be used in an advanced corporate finance class. It can be taught in two hours of class time and should take about two to three hours of outside preparation by the students.
Investors are clamoring to connect with the online networking service LinkedIn Corp. in the latest sign of the fervor for Internet companies that specialize in bringing together people with common interests. The push to buy a piece of LinkedIn is so intense that the 8-year-old company is expected to make its stock market debut Thursday with a value of at least $4 billion. That would make LinkedIn's initial public offering of stock the biggest by a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc. went public in 2004, according to the research firm Renaissance Capital.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc. raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest IPO by an Internet company since Google Inc. raised $1.7 billion in 2004. The global leader in "daily deals" is now valued at almost $13 billion after saying it increased the offering by 5 million shares to 35 million in total and pricing them at $20 each, above an initial range of $16 to $18.
SAN FRANCISCO - Is Google Inc.'s incandescent stock a golden opportunity or fool's gold? Investors have been arguing that question since Google's initial public offering in August 2004.
IPOs are in the news again. An everyday headliner during the roaring 1990s, these initial public offerings dropped off the news radar during the recession of the early 2000s. Now one IPO in particular, the popular Internet company Google, is drawing attention to these investments again.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Is Google Inc.'s incandescent stock a golden opportunity or fool's gold? Investors have been arguing that question since Google's initial public offering in August 2004.
NEW YORK -- In charting its own trailblazing course through its $1.9 billion initial public offering, Google made a lot of attention- grabbing moves -- ranging from the sublime to the inartful. One misstep is still reverberating through Silicon Valley, now that hundreds of Google employees seeking to sell stock have been forced to disclose personal financial information in individual filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Google's innovative initial public offering treats you - the regular investor - as king. Gone are the special favors to wealthy investors. Big institutions won't have their usual first dibs either.
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