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Google IPO: terms, going public, and stock purchasing

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Pick a company that has had an initial public offering in the last 5-10 years. Identify the IPO terms and answer the following questions in no less than 500.

1) Did this company need to go public to in meet its financial goals?

2) As an investor, would you have been willing to purchase the company's stock at the offering price? Why or why not?

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The solution provides an in-depth analysis of Google's IPO over the last 5-10 years. The expert identifies IPO terms and discusses if Google needed to go public in order to meets its financial goals. The solution also takes the position of the investor and explains if they would be willing to purchase the company's stock at the offering price. Resources are provided to the student for further learning.

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Overview of IPO

IPO is an Initial Public offer to an investor, which mean it is the first issue of equities by the company to the general public at large. Among the most popular reasons a company might choose to go public are to: raise capital to expand its business, finance acquisitions, pay debt and have greater and easier access to capital in the future. Thus financing issue is how much to raise the funds from the equity offer. What should be the optimal capital structure in order to minimize the cost of capital.

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.

Registration

Company can become "public" in one of two ways - by issuing securities in an offering registered under the Securities Act or by registering the company's outstanding securities under Exchange Act requirements. Both types of registration trigger ongoing reporting obligations for your company
If you decide on a registered public offering, the Securities Act requires your company to file a registration statement with the SEC before the company can offer its securities for sale. It has got two parts:

• Additional information
• Reporting and Fiduciary Responsibilities

Public companies must continuously file reports with the SEC and the exchange they list on. They must comply with certain state securities laws , NASD and exchange guidelines.
If your company registers a class of securities under the Exchange Act, it must file the same annual, periodic, and current reports that are required as a result of Securities Act registration

Record Keeping

Companies need to require audited financial statements for the last three years before they can go public. These need to be provided separately for each significant (>20%) unconsolidated subsidiary.

Case of Google

Google is one of the most successful new dot com companies presently. Their success is based on innovation, rapid growth, and an obsession to be the best search engine in the Wide World Web. Listed hereunder are excerpts from their main page website (http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html) which describes its vision, mission, and values.

Organization Background

Google is one of the biggest Internet Company. According to Saul Hansell, of the New York Times; Google is "... one of the biggest advertising vehicles the world has ever seen. Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services. Named for the mathematical term "googol," Google operates web sites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being www.google.com. Google is widely recognized as the "world's best search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. The company also ...

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