Facebook may hold IPO next week

The most long-awaited IPO of this year (or decade) may take place next week, writes Wall Street Journal . According to analysts, the main evidence of the imminent IPO is that at the end of this week, Facebook suspended trading in shares on the secondary market. By law, after filling in the S-1 form, the company must enter the so-called “quiet period”: it is forbidden to release new products and make public statements. At the same time, many companies stop trading in shares on the secondary market in order not to give benefits to insiders.

According to preliminary estimates, investors can estimate Facebook in the amount of 75 to 100 billion US dollars, so Facebook will officially be included in the list of the largest corporations in the world, taking place somewhere between McDonald's ($ 101 billion) and Rosneft ($ 83 billion) , twice behind Google ($ 188 billion).

Facebook for an IPO will offer about 10-12% of the company's shares, worth about $ 10 billion. Naturally, this will be the largest IPO in the history of IT. Previously, the record belonged to the German chip maker Infineon, which raised $ 5.9 billion in 2000. Google collected only $ 1.9 billion in 2004, with a valuation of $ 23 billion.