The Facebook IPO: The Last Great Wall Street Party
The Facebook IPO is kind of like a graduation party – everybody comes together for one huge blowout to celebrate the end of an era before going their separate ways. Unfortunately, most people on Wall Street do not understand how bittersweet this moment really is. A tremendous amount of pain is ahead for Wall Street in the next few years, and we will probably never see anything like the Facebook IPO ever again. But the Facebook IPO sure has been fun to watch. Facebook is one of the largest companies to ever go public in the United States. According to CNN, 247 million shares of Facebook exchanged hands in the first 45 minutes of trading. The Facebook IPO was nearly ten times larger than any other Internet IPO in history, and the amount of money being made by some people on this deal is absolutely amazing. For example, it is being reported that Bono will make more money on the Facebook IPO than he has from being part of the band U2 for the past 30 years. Sadly, this euphoria is not going to last for long. The next wave of the global financial collapse is rapidly approaching, and once it strikes there will not be much for anyone on Wall Street to be smiling about at all.
During the IPO process, Facebook sold more than 420 million shares and raised about 16 billion dollars.
Those are incredible numbers.
At 38 dollars per share, Facebook would have a market cap of about 81 billion dollars.
So is Facebook worth 81 billion dollars?
Of course not.
But most stocks are tremendously overvalued at this point.
Yes, Facebook has 900 million users and it made about a profit of about a billion dollars last year.
But that does not add up to an 81 billion dollar company.
Not even close.
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