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The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2] After the dot-com bubble burst on March 11, 2000, several companies that Amazon had invested in went bankrupt, with Amazon's stock price itself sinking to record lows. [3]
Amazon stock was priced at $18 at IPO, but split-adjusted, the price for that first share would be $0.075. If you had bought one share at IPO, you'd have 240 shares today. Those shares would be ...
All told, one share of Amazon purchased right at its IPO would be 240 shares today. On a split-adjusted basis, its IPO price of $18.00 per share has been pared down to only $0.075.
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Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n / ⓘ, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]
eGain: Its stock price doubled shortly after its 1999 IPO. Egghead Software: An online software retailer, its shares surged in 1998 as investors bought up shares of Internet companies; by 2001, the company was bankrupt. eToys.com: An online toy retailer whose stock price hit a high of $84.35 per share in October 1999. In February 2001, it filed ...
The Department of Justice files suit against Apple Inc and five major publishing houses (the "Big Five"), alleging that they colluded in 2010 to raise the price of ebooks (using the agency pricing model that gives publishers full control over ebook prices). [124] Amazon had originally set the price of ebooks at $9.99 (using the wholesale ...
Electric vehicle maker Rivian has confirmed it has filed confidentially with the Securities & Exchange Commission for an initial public offering that could value the company at $80 billion ...