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2. Initial public offering of Facebook - Wikipedia

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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]

3. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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   Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12][13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]

4. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Facebook - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. List of public corporations by market capitalization - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Initial public offering - Wikipedia

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   A Dutch auction allows shares of an initial public offering to be allocated based only on price aggressiveness, with all successful bidders paying the same price per share. [21] [22] One version of the Dutch auction is OpenIPO, which is based on an auction system designed by economist William Vickrey. This auction method ranks bids from highest ...

8. Share price - Wikipedia

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   (For example, 500 shares at $32 may become 1000 shares at $16.) Many major firms like to keep their price in the $25 to $75 price range. A US share must be priced at $1 or more to be covered by NASDAQ. If the share price falls below that level, the stock is "delisted" and becomes an OTC (over the counter stock). A stock must have a price of $1 ...

9. 2021 Facebook leak - Wikipedia

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   In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook based on internal documents from unknown provenance. Revelations included reporting of special allowances on posts from high-profile users ("XCheck"), subdued responses to flagged information on human traffickers and drug cartels, a shareholder lawsuit concerning the cost of Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark ...