Facebook IPO: capitalization amounted to $ 105 billion

The social network Facebook, which has more than 900 million users, placed its shares on the open stock market - 421.2 million shares were sold at $ 38 each, which makes Mark Zuckerberg’s total capitalization of $ 104.8 billion. The main buyers of the shares were private investors, and even with the revised volume of issue of securities (initially planned to issue 334 million units), analysts at Sterne Agee & Leach claim that the demand for shares still remained unsatisfied.

The overall evaluation of Facebook’s IPO is generally recognized by analysts as successful, but the high price of paper takes into account the company's future growth (overcoming the psychologically important mark of one billion users at the end of 2012), so if Zuckerberg cannot justify investors' expectations in this sense, the share price will be revised downwards and Facebook's capitalization will decrease.

For now, Facebook statistics (via XaocCPS ) are as follows:

• 901 million monthly active users
• 3.2 billion likes and comments daily
• 300 million photos uploaded daily
• 488 million mobile customers

On August 13, 2004, Google within its IPO placed 19.6 million of its shares, after which the capitalization of the Internet gigot amounted to $ 23 billion. Since then, Google shares have risen in price by about 10 times and now the estimate of the company's capitalization is estimated at $ 200 billion.
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The main Facebook subscribers are Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, with the latter earning over $ 1 billion on an IPO by 28-year-old Mark Zuckerberg with a fortune of over $ 19.3 billion, overtaking Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Among the owners of Facebook there are Russian investors - the investment company DST Global Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner owns about 70 million shares.

UPD: Digreez has noticed a good Russian-language infographic on the topic:



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