Talk:Initial public offering

What deterines the IPO price of a company considering going pubic?

  Many factors including valuation, market conditions and investor sentiment. See Ritter & Welch (2000) for a broad survey overview.

The description of the auction method on the article page is flawed and incomplete. It would be wise for you to do research before posting seemingly-factual information.

Seconding this. May edit to include basic principles only.

[edit] not a good explanation

the article seems most focused on certain technical details instead of a more general explanation

most people come to this article because they dont know anything about investing

I recently filled in some details on the greenshoe option often used in public offerings and believe that a link to that wiki entry would be appropriate in this section, so I intend to make an entry here with a link. I also think I might be able to add some more informative detail to this entry directly. Duedilly 04:38, 30 September 2006 (UTC) barry deegan rules ha ha ha

Also if someone can point out how new stock/IPO are traded, that will be helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.249.19 (talk) 16:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SEC filings

I think mentioning which SEC filings are involved with IPOs is important. The S-1 filing contains all the information anyone could want regarding company information, share distribution/amounts/pricing, risk factors, and other information. It was deleted by a moderator when added to links, so should I add this as a new section, or is it not important enough?

[edit] a reverse IPO

can someone please put some explantion on a "reverse IPO" in this article? Jackzhp 19:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IPO definitions reqd

Can anyone explain what the following terms mean?
post issue capital
floor price
cap price
P/E
EPS
cut- off price

Here is a paragraph for reference:

The issue is priced at 11.90x FY07 E (HY 07 annualized) earnings on post issue capital at floor price and at 13.84x at cap price. The comparable peer is trading at a P/E of 36.31x with an EPS of Rs 41.44 (FY 07).

We recommend the investors to subscribe at the cut- off.

Thanks in advance,
Prasadpkamath 08:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

post issue capital
The capitalization after the offering. If the company had 1mm shares outstanding prior to the offering and was selling another million in the offering, investors are interested on per share numbers post-offering, as that would be the number tha applies to the shares they are considering buying in the offering.

floor price
cap price
In the context of your paragraph these seem to relate to the minimum and maximum likely price, per share, of the offering

P/E
Price-earnings ratio P/E ratio

EPS
Earnings per share

cut- off price I'm not sure from the context what is meant by this.

--Conant Webb 19:22, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of Interest

It appears that User:Rmudambi, who has a number of edits to this article, has added numerous references to his own published works. Jauerback 03:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

What's even more irritating is that this user didn't even inline cite and I don't particularly wish to read through all that to find out where the references are. The articles do look legit and reasonably scholarly though. --Meowist 17:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Issuance of Common Stock

Will Only Common Stock be issued for first sale in case of an IPO or non-equity also will be issued??

125.16.11.68 06:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Ravi125.16.11.68 06:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

It could be anything, but most frequently is common stock --Conant Webb 19:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References, Inline Citations, and all that

I've added the first(!) inline citation to this article while clearing up the quiet period confusion (yes, there are two of them and no, the former still exists). I hope people will follow the trend and add more inline citations and, in so doing, clear out the rubbish references sections at the end of every section as well. For an article that, no doubt, gets ridiculously many page hits, it really, really ought to be inline cited. --Meowist 18:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)