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Re:Facebook trades under $30, down 7%+ by jonknee on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @12:40PM (#4038326)
> In contrast to the Google IPO in which the stock skyrocketed on the first day and really took off after that. Google may have been able to extract quite a bit from their IPO than they did.

Google priced their shares based on an auction, I'd say it was priced right. It was also much smaller because it wasn't a bunch of insiders trying to dump their shares at an inflated value.

Google sold 19.6M shares, 14.1M of them were from corporate. There were 271M shares in total, so only a very small amount of the company was transferred. In contrast for FB, there are 2.14B total shares and the IPO was for 421.2M of them, a much larger percentage of the company. In addition, insiders made up 241M of those shares sold, which is actually the majority of the IPO.

Re:Facebook trades under $30, down 7%+ by asdf333 on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @01:07PM (#4038485)
While this is anecdotal, some ibanking friends told me that alot of the traditional wall street banks 'boycotted' google for going w/ a smaller player who did a non-traditional format (auctions) that threatened their business model and that resulted in lower demand (and lower price) for their shares at IPO than would have otherwise been the case.
Re:Facebook trades under $30, down 7%+ by baq on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @02:27PM (#4038931)
another win for the efficient market hypothesis. /s