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Enthusiasm For IPOs Has Dipped
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 12:23pm | 239Read More...IPOs are on track for their busiest year since the 2008 financial crisis, but are being met with less investor enthusiasm, according to the Wall Street Journal. From November 4 to November 8, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) was one of only 13 new issues that were priced above the listing company's...
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Did Twitter Make a Huge Mistake Pricing Shares at $26?
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 8:38am | 573Read More...We won’t know today or even this year, but people are already asking. Did Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) price itself too high? There’s certainly and argument but every argument has both sides. Here they are. The Shares are Too Expensive First problem: Twitter isn’t making money but that isn’t...
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Twitter To List On The NYSE (TWTR)
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 6:55am | 503Read More...In not-so-unexpected news, Twitter disclosed in an amended S-1 filing that it will list on the New York Stock Exchange when it’s IPO hits the street this fall. As already disclosed, Twitter will list under the ticker, TWTR. It came as no surprise to investors. From the beginning, the rumor...
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Twitter Publicly Files S-1; Here is Everything You Need To Know (TWTR)
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 5:45pm | 348Read More...Making headlines Thursday after the close was the long anticipated public filing of Twitter's S-1, taking the social giant one step closer to its IPO. The filing can be found here In the filing, it was stated that Twitter is currently valued at $1 billion and will list under the symbol 'TWTR.'...
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What You Need to Know About the Twitter IPO
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 7:51am | 660Read More...If you thought a Carl Icahn tweet couldn’t be upstaged, you were wrong. Exactly one hour after the closing bell, Twitter announced on its own site that it had filed a confidential S-1 for a planned IPO. This was huge news. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a...
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Sprouts Farmers Market More Than Doubles On First Day (SFM)
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 9:23am | 596Read More...The stock market apparently likes the food market. At least the Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ: SFM) segment, which doubled and then some Thursday during its first day of trading, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sprouts' share price jumped 123 percent to close at $40.11 after entering...
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One Year Later: Facebook Employees Are Happier Since the IPO
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 12:55pm | 491Read More...One year following Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) IPO, its employees are more satisfied than they were in the twelve months before the public offering, as well as more confident in CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The revealing figures come from a survey conducted by Glassdoor. In the twelve month period before...
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EXCLUSIVE: Shutterstock CEO Talks to Benzinga as Shares Surge in Public Debut
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 5:48pm | 790Read More...Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK), a leading online marketplace for digital images, surged in its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The company priced 4.5 million shares at $17 apiece, giving the company a market-cap of $558.3 million. On Thursday, the stock closed its first day on...
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Biggest Post-Facebook IPO Wave Is Set For This Week
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 12:43pm | 421Read More...The biggest wave of IPOs since Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) went public is set to hit the U.S. markets this week. The reception to IPOs slowed in the second quarter in the wake of Facebook's lackluster market debut. New issues also were down, however, as companies delayed their moves to the public...
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Facebook's Dirty Little Secret
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 3:05pm | 688Read More...Corporate SEC documents required by law must include a risk section. Every public company must outline potential risks. Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) initial public offering (IPO) documents included 23 pages of risk. Most corporate risk information is boilerplate; it’s a competitive environment, there...
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The Real Deal on Wall Street: 5 Market Problems Facebook IPO Won't Solve
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 8:53am | 429Read More...Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) frenzy has swept the land. I obviously was not born when gold fever hit the California coast, but Facebook frenzy has to be very close in resemblance. Just look at the creepy similarities: Gold and Facebook are two objects we as people could relate to in real life...
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The Facebook IPO: What's Not to "Like"?
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 4:09pm | 634Read More...Actually there is plenty not to like. If there was a ‘dislike’ button I would certainly click it. If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me about the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO in recent weeks, I’d have almost as much money as Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook mania seems to be sweeping...
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Everything You Wanted To Know About The Stock Exchange But Were Too Shy To Ask
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 10:36am | 2907Read More...Introduction I have been asked by several of my readers to provide an easy to understand introduction to some of the more misunderstood or confusing concepts of stock markets and how they operate. In this article I will go over an introduction to what a stock exchange is, who can...
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At $100 Billion, Facebook Could Be a Bargain
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 11:49am | 1460Read More...A few weeks ago when Facebook filed its IPO, rumor had it that Facebook could see a valuation of over $100 billion. Using the International Monetary Fund's numbers, that would make Facebook worth about four times the GDP of Afghanistan, and about a third of Greece's GDP. The total was met with...
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Social Network IPOs
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 4:49am | 630Read More...Facebook, the grand daddy of social networks, is expected to file for IPO on Wednesday. A long anticipated event, this can either energize the technology company IPOs once again, or it can mean that intelligent companies always sell out at the top of the market. The verdict is yet to be known,...
