In a move that has been hotly anticipated, Facebook has filed with the SEC to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock in the United States. The company will trade with the stock symbol of “FB”.
Yesterday, it had been predicted that Facebook would file initial paperwork for its public offering, seeking to raise $5B in its IPO bid. Morgan Stanley grabbed the lead bookrunner role and Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and JP Morgan finished off the total of six initial bookrunners.
The timeline puts Facebook’s public offering on the slate for mid-May. It now has to enter a mandated quiet period, so it could mean that Timeline is the last new product we see from the company until that period is up.
To run through the numbers, Facebook is saying in the filing that it has 845 million active monthly users. The company made $3.71 billion in revenue, with $1 billion in profit in 2011, nearly doubling from 2010. At present, the company has $3.9 billion in cash on hand.
Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, owns 28.4% of the company, drawing a $483,000 salary, with a $220,000 bonus in 2011. The company even credits Zynga with providing 12% of its revenue in 2011 (more on that here).
The company will focus on mobile, in the future, and with good reason:
“We had more than 425 million MAUs who used Facebook mobile products in December 2011. We anticipate that the rate of growth in mobile users will continue to exceed the growth rate of our overall MAUs for the foreseeable future, in part due to our focus on developing mobile products to encourage mobile usage of Facebook.”
The filing then goes on to explain, as a risk factor, that Facebook relies heavily on the interoperability of mobile OSs with its application:
“We are dependent on the interoperability of Facebook with popular mobile operating systems that we do not control, such as Android and iOS, and any changes in such systems that degrade our products’ functionality or give preferential treatment to competitive products could adversely affect Facebook usage on mobile devices.”
We’ll continue digging, but for now make sure to read the interesting facts that we’re finding in Facebook’s S-1.
We must stop comparing Facebook to Google or Yahoo.Here is why: Facebook filled a societal gap that lowered the ratings on news stations,put television shows out of business(TRL),and closed cultural gaps in the world.Keep in mind the days of waiting for the 10 oclock news to get a story about a triple homocide in texas is over; if you live in New Jersey you can get the news directly from someone that lives next door to the killer in Texas.No other time in history was information was able to spread so quickly.Do you think teens will log off of their Facebook page to watch TRL? Never before was a white person that never formally had a black friend could befriend a black person through a social network that allowed the two to share intimate details about ther lives.This Is power people.When have you ever seen a public news station indirectly promote a company so excessively? For people who say facebook if a fad answer this question,Do you remember the world without facebook, picture the world without a facebook? Of course Facebook placed on the stock market can fail,if you know anything about business one would argue facebook took too long to place its company on the stock market,but on another note,why give the public the options to make millions when i can capitalize without the risk. hate it or love it until some genius create another facebook it will be forever part of or culture. Some things is just that good,,,,,Mcdonalds,Nike,Google,,,,these are things thats just part of our culture...Hate it or love it..
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LikeWith 845 million users generating 2.7 billion Likes and comments a day, last year alone Facebook made over $3.71 billions!
Huge numbers.. but be aware, because facebook's entire secret is based on the fact that people are easily fooled and Zuckerberg is really a con artist!
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You can find all the information around Facebook S-1 in one Delicious stack: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/EeUqDe
Wow, you guys have some cool numbers listed, that's great! So, now we can own a piece of ourselves, eh? hehe. :P
Great! I was so tired of all these rumors going around all these days! :P
they're projectying up to 100B will be raised. a real gravy train.