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An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors [1] and usually also to retail (individual) investors. [2] An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.
Some 108 companies conducted their IPO in 2023 and raised $19.4 billion, according to Renaissance Capital. Those figures rose markedly from the 2022 doldrums of 71 IPOs and just $7.7 billion raised.
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The stock had more than quadrupled its IPO price by mid-1987. During the peak of the Dot Com bubble in 2000, Microsoft’s market cap peaked above $600 billion, making it one of the largest ...
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After the IPO, Zuckerberg was to retain a 22% ownership share in Facebook and was to own 57% of the voting shares. [13] The document also stated that the company was seeking to raise US$ 5 billion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in tech history and the biggest in Internet history. [14] The roadshow faced a "rough start" initially.
A public offering is the offering of securities of a company or a similar corporation to the public. Generally, the securities are to be publicly listed. In most jurisdictions, a public offering requires the issuing company to publish a prospectus detailing the terms and rights attached to the offered security, as well as information on the company itself and its finances.