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Ultimately underwriters settled on a price of $38 per share, at the top of its target range. This price valued the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly public company. On May 16, two days before the IPO, Facebook announced that it would sell 25% more shares than originally planned due to high demand.
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]
Facebook's initial public offering came on May 17, 2012, at a share price of US$38 ($50.00 in 2023 dollars). The company was valued at $104 billion ($138 billion in 2023 dollars), the largest valuation to that date.
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 ...
In August 2012, Facebook estimated that more than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake accounts. As a result of this revelation, the share price of Facebook dropped below $20. Facebook has asserted that "authentic identity is important to the Facebook experience, and our goal is that every account on Facebook should represent a real person".
This Financial Times –based list is up to date as of December 31, 2015. Indicated changes in market value are relative to the previous quarter. Rank. First quarter [63] Second quarter [64] Third quarter [65] [note 3] Fourth quarter [66] [note 3] 1. Apple.
Share price. A share price is the price of a single share of a number of saleable equity shares of a company. In layman's terms, the stock price is the highest amount someone is willing to pay for the stock, or the lowest amount that it can be bought for.
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