Terry Blanton wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With an IPO that raised say $10 billion (which alone
would drag things out an additional 6 months) you
could count on the first product capable of powering a
home coming to market in 4 years- at the very least.
Has there ever been an IPO of that magnitude?
Yes. Biggest one I found in a quick Google search was $19 billion, by
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China. See:
See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102000207.html
There have been other "monster IPOs" as well. However, the really big
ones are typically either for long-established companies that have been
going concerns for a long, long time, but just had never gone public, or
they're for spinoffs which were wholly owned subsidiaries of larger
companies until the IPO.
For a new company with little income and a few dozen employees the
numbers are normally much, much smaller.
Terry
