Monday, September 24, 2012

Facebook Prices at $38; 11 AM Tomorrow is D-Day

The Wall Street Journal‘s�Deal Journal‘s David Benoit today reports that Facebook will likely price its initial public offering toward the top of a quoted range of $34 to $38, citing unnamed sources.

The IPO would be worth $18.4 billion, writes Benoit, having sold out its entire “over-allotment,” and Facebook will have a market value at the offer price of $104 billion.

Update: Indeed, it appears that the company has, in fact, priced the deal at $38 this afternoon, per headlines from CNBC just now.

Update 2: Nasdaq has stated trading will begin tomorrow at 11 am, Eastern time:

IPO Notice: The initial public offering of Facebook, Inc. (FB) will be released on NASDAQ tomorrow for quotation at 10:45 ET and trading at approximately 11:00 [...] Reminder: Trading prohibited during quote-only period of IPOs.

No comments:

Post a Comment