Initial Public Offerings (IPO's)
The term "IPO" slipped into everyday speech during the tech bull market of the late 1990s.
Back then, it seemed you couldn't go a day without hearing about a dozen new dot-com millionaires in Silicon Valley cashing in on their latest IPO. The phenomenon spawned the term "siliconaire," which described the dot-com entrepreneurs in their early 20s and 30s who suddenly found themselves living large due to IPOs from their Internet companies.
So, what is an IPO anyway? How did everybody get so rich so fast? And, most importantly, is it possible for mere mortals like us to get in on an IPO? All these questions and more will be answered in this tutorial.
Before we continue, we suggest you check out our stock basics tutorial as well as brokers and online trading if you don't have a solid understanding of stocks and how they trade.
IPO Basics: What is an IPO?
Selling Stock
IPO is an acronym for Initial Public Offering. This is the first sale of stock by a company to the public. A company can raise money by issuing either debt (bonds) or equity. If the company has never issued equity to the public, it's known as an IPO.
Companies fall into two broad categories: private and public.
A privately held company has fewer shareholders and its owners don't have to disclose much information about the company. Anybody can go out and incorporate a company: just put in some money, file the right legal documents, and follow the reporting rules of your jurisdiction. Most small businesses are privately held. But large companies can be private too. Did you know that IKEA, Domino's Pizza, and Hallmark Cards are all privately held?
It usually isn't possible to buy shares in a private company. You can approach the owners about investing, but they're not obligated to sell you anything. Public companies, on the other hand, have sold at least a portion of themselves to the public and trade on a stock exchange. This is why doing an IPO is also referred to as "going public."
Public companies have thousands of shareholders and are subject to strict rules and regulations. They must have a board of directors and they must report financial information every quarter. In the United States, public companies report to the SEC. In other countries, public companies are overseen by governing bodies similar to the SEC. From an investor's standpoint, the most exciting thing about a public company is that the stock is traded in the open market, like any other commodity.
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Stock investment means you are purchasing a share of the company, therefore the company’s success determines the value of your investment. Buying stocks is not a difficult process; clarification of some important terminology and differentiation helps gives you the foundation to start investing.
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And there are some advantages of a public limited company such as there is limited liability for the shareholders which mean the maximum losses that will cause are the amount that the shareholders invested in that company it won’t cause more than that so for the investor the risk is limited. Other than that the public limited company’s potential capital that they can raised is large they can raise fund by selling shares or borrow from bank. Also public limited company is easier to obtain financing because most of the banks and financial institution would like to invest to the larger company just like PLC. PLC have high continuity although the helm of company step down the company can still operating normally because shareholder can transfer their shares to anyone. There are many advantages of PLC but it still have some disadvantages for instance :PLC must make public annual financial report of the company also if the company close the liquidator must be realize the all assets to distribute to all creditors and shareholders. So the owner of Tesco are those people who bought the shares of Tesco. Furthermore, every year Tesco will held the annual general shareholders meeting. Tesco will report the annual accounts, strategic report and directors' report etc. to the shareholders in the meeting. Therefore the shareholders of Tesco can have more information and data to grasp more about
It is also, of course, a handy way of raising capital without having to cede majority control of the company. Indeed, for the few that have achieved genuine nation-wide market share in their industries, there is little choice but to go public or offer stakes to strategic investors if they want to continue expanding.
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