Google IPO Case Study Presentation Oct. 13, 2004 Amy Black, Matt Dormer, David Marsden, Yugo Watanabe 101304Google_2
Agenda • Traditional IPO • Dutch Auctions (reverse auction) • Examples of other Dutch Auction • Was the IPO successful?
Traditional IPO • First sale of publicly traded stock • Private vs Public • IPO Specialists • Regulated by the SEC
Dutch Auction • Overview of Dutch (Reverse) Auction Process - Company determines amount of stock and price range - Buyers place bids and price goes down until stock is sold
• Goals of Dutch Auction - Open up offering to Individual investors - Lower fees paid to Investment Banks - Reduce volatility - Google saw themselves at the frontier of technology
Dutch Auction • Snapshot at Google’s IPO - 25.7 M shares originally priced at $108-135/share - Actual IPO priced 19.6 M shares at $85-95/share
• Hybrid Auctions May become the norm
Other Dutch Auctions • Since April 9, 1999, 9 companies have used the Dutch auction system to go public • Before Google, only one reduced its offering price (Peet’s Coffee) • Reducing an IPO’s price is not unusual
Other Dutch Auctions • Two companies priced their offerings higher than the initial price • Alibris was the only Dutch auction to be withdrawn
April 29 Filed IPO Excitement for potential to reinvigorate the tech-market
July 30
Aug. 12 13
Registration Period
Aug. 17
Auction Period
Skepticism; technical issues (too expensive & cumbersome)
Aug. 19 Trade Begin 1st Day Nasdaq Trading $85 ⇒ $100.34 +18%
Oct. 12 Last Trade 136.66
Was the IPO successful? Achieved primary purpose of an IPO. • Raised $1.7 billion - more than any other tech company since 2000 • Gave stock valuation of $23 billion - more than double the market value of Sears - worth more than AT&T corp., Xerox Corp. and RadioShack Corp. combined. The Washington Post Aug. 19, 2004 Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2004
Was the IPO successful? • First- day “pop” - 1990 ~ 98, historically 15 % average - bubble of the late 90’s ⇒ First day gains averaged 65% • Banker Fee - as much as 7% of the money raised The San Francisco Chronicle Aug. 22, 2004 Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2004
Oct. 12, 2004: Last Trade 136.66