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IPO Channel

Welcome to the Investors Hub IPO Channel where we will bring you the latest information on upcoming IPO’s and focus on the biggest new listings to the market – like the recent Twitter IPO.

An IPO is short for an initial public offering. Like the name says, it's when a company initially offers shares of Stocks to the public. This is also known as going public. An IPO is the first time the companies owners give up a percentage of their business to stockholders.

The previous major media buzz IPO was Facebook, which floated in May 2012 with 15% of the company being sold in the form of 421 million shares at $38 a piece, valuing the company at $104 billion overall and raising in the region of $16 billion in cash. Facebook was the Third largest US IPO of all time, behind only General Motors and VISA Inc. Twitter proved just as successful when it floated in October 2013.

Featured IPO - Twitter

Launched in 2006 Twitter is a leading social network site and microblogging platform that, according to its last released figures, has 200m users worldwide. Currently earning 65% of its revenue through advertising, the company expects to earn $600m in 2013, up from $317m in 2012. In September 2013 the company announced that it had applied to become listed company and aimed to raise $1bn, which would make it the year’s largest Silicon Valley floatation.

After tweeting “We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.” Twitter entered a new era.

Twitter’s plans to raise $1bn from the listing reflect the rapid growth and increased popularity of the site since its launch in 2006. In 2010 the company reported annual revenue of $28m before experiencing an over 1,000% rise to $317m in 2012.

The company, which has yet to make a profit and currently raises more than 65% of its revenue from advertising, faces the challenge of turning its estimated 250m users into profit for shareholders. Twitter has reported that it has brought in $168.6m during the third quarter of 2013, double that of the same period in 2012, but rival Facebook is expected to announce $1.9bn in revenue during the same quarter.

A further challenge facing Twitter is user retention and usage.  In a recent poll for Reuters conducted by Ipsos found that 36% of people with accounts have stopped using the platform, with a further 7% of previous users saying that they had deleted their accounts. This compares to 7% of Facebook users who have stopped using the site and 5% of those polled having deleted their profiles.

Initial Public Offerings

Logo Company Market Price Shares Offer Amount Expected IPO Date
TwitterNYSE$1,000,000,000October 26th 2013
Argos Therapeutics IncNASDAQ13.004,250,000$73,312,500February 7, 2014
Eagle Pharmaceuticals IncNASDAQ14.003,333,333$61,333,328February 13, 2014
Egalet CorpNASDAQ11.003,500,000$52,325,000February 7, 2014
Flexion Therapeutics LtdNASDAQ12.005,000,000$80,500,000February 12, 2014
Ladder Capital CorpNYSE16.0013,250,000$274,275,000February 7, 2014
Nephrogenex IncNASDAQ12.003,100,000$49,910,000February 7, 2014
Semler Scientific IncNASDAQ12.001,150,000$18,515,000February 14, 2014
Sundance Energy Australia LtdNASDAQ16.507,750,000$164,881,250February 21, 2014

More Information About IPOs

What Is an IPO?

About IPOsIPO stands for Initial Public Offering. It is when a privately held company launches on the stock exchange by offering shares for sale to the general public.