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Questions tagged [ipo]

For personal finance questions related to a company's Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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what's the difference between money raised in an ipo and its valuation?

I see news that says "company X wants to raise 3 million dollars at a valuation of 25 million dollars". How does the company get this 3 million? And is the valuation determined in part by how much many it wants to raise? If so: how?
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How to buy an IPO?

how does one buy an IPO? Are these only for institutional investors? For example Dropbox IPO'd at $21, yet I don't think I had the opportunity to purchase at this rate. I can buy on the stock exchange but not at that IPO price. Why is this?
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What is the rule for time between an IPO filing and public exchange

What is the time between an IPO filing (thinking S-1 registration and having a lead underwriter) and being traded on the public exchanges? slide 9 here shows a calendar http://www.slideshare.net/samanthachmelik/The-IPO-Process-IC-Training but I'm…
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If a company has already IPO'ed and sold its shares, what is the incentive to keep making money?

If a company has already 'exited' with an IPO and sold its shares, what is the incentive to keep making money?
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How does one trade IPO stock on the first day of trade?

As one cannot get into IPO before it does public, how can one trade IPO stock on the first day of trading? I understand one can place orders in a public market. But trading in a public market on the first day of trading does not seem to be…
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Does the owner of a company effectively "give up" a portion of his company on IPO?

I’ve been trying to understand IPOs by reading some questions about it on this forum. As I understand it, if I’m the owner of 100% of the company and decide to go public with, say 10% of my company, I’m effectively “giving up” that chunk of the pie…
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Is there a Central Place where IPOs are announced

I wish to buy several companies when they have initial public offering (IPO). Instead of doing google, where is a central website that announces IPOs of companies?
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Why did Berkshire Hathaway have an IPO starting at $7000+?

Or in other words how is IPO value determined?
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