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Ultimately underwriters settled on a price of $38 per share, at the top of its target range. [23] This price valued the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly public company. [24] On May 16, two days before the IPO, Facebook announced that it would sell 25% more shares than originally planned due to high demand. [25]
v. t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly ...
Facebook's initial public offering came on May 17, 2012, at a share price of US$38 ($50.00 in 2023 dollars [20]). The company was valued at $104 billion ($138 billion in 2023 dollars [20]), the largest valuation to that date.
In 2020, Facebook, Inc. spent $19.7 million on lobbying, hiring 79 lobbyists. In 2019, it had spent $16.7 million on lobbying and had a team of 71 lobbyists, up from $12.6 million and 51 lobbyists in 2018. [121] Facebook was the largest spender of lobbying money among the Big Tech companies in 2020. [122]
COVID-19 recession. On 20 February 2020, stock markets across the world suddenly crashed after growing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ended on 7 April 2020. Beginning on 13 May 2019, the yield curve on U.S. Treasury securities inverted, [ 1 ] and remained so until 11 October 2019, when it reverted to normal. [ 2 ]
The following is a list of publicly traded companies having the greatest market capitalization, sometimes described as their "market value": [1] Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the share price on a selected day and the number of outstanding shares on that day. The list is expressed in USD millions, using exchange rates from ...
Stock exchange. Interior hall of the Helsinki Stock Exchange in Helsinki, Finland, 1965. A stock exchange is an exchange (or bourse) where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell shares (equity stock), bonds, and other securities. Many large companies have their stocks listed on a stock exchange. This makes the stock more liquid and thus more ...
Facebook releases its 2016 Q1 earnings report, showing an increase in earnings to 77 cents per share up from 42 cents per share a year ago. The earnings beat analyst expectations, and cause Facebook share prices to soar, leading its market cap to exceed that of Johnson & Johnson. Facebook also reports an increase of 57% in advertising revenue ...