One of the desires of investors is the possibility of seeing early trading to Facebook on the stock markets. However, as happened at the time with Google its market premiere was delayed.
Currently, anyone who wishes not wait to offer IPO can go to secondary markets for unlisted companies ( SecondMarket , SharesPost ) and acquire shares in the company. Another alternative, is the next public offering of shares of the Russian company Mail.ru (formerly Digital Sky Technologies) listed on the LSE ( London Stock Exchange ), which owns directly and indirectly a package of 10% of Facebook.
The expectations raised by a company like Facebook, with great potential for growth and appreciation, make it difficult to pinpoint the valuation that different sources attribute between 23 and 33 billion $.
It is curious to observe how reputable companies and many years in the markets have a market capitalization below previous estimates ( figures in billions of $ ):
- eBay 32
- Costco 27.5
- Research in Motion 26
- Dell 23.8
- Starbucks 19.2
More remarkable still is the ratio value per employee in the case of Facebook with about 1,500 employees would be $ 22 million, while eBay would be $ 2 million and $ 0.16 million in Starbucks.
Anyway the reality right now, for instance, is that eBay invoice 9 times more than Facebook and its assessment is what investors are willing to pay in the markets for their results and future, and no estimates more or less success. How the social network knows exploit the business potential that gives the currently more than 500 million users , will mark its future and real value in markets rather than their current appeal, but it certainly looks set to be another
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