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Internet IPOs

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Tom OKeefe

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Today Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon.com and Google remain the leading players in the internet and technology space. Companies like Microsoft and Apple have been around for over 20 years while Google is less then ten years old. Below are some of the IPO dates for the current online leaders and others that we’ve forgotten about.

Apple IPO
December 12, 1980
$22 per share ($2.75 on a split adjusted basis)

Microsoft IPO
March 14, 1986
Stock rose $8 from its $21 price
News: SeattlePI.com

CMGI IPO
January 25, 1994
Priced initially at $8 but after a reverse split the IPO was just $0.17 in early 1994. In early January 2000 that $0.17 hit an intraday high of $163.50!

Netscape IPO
August 9, 1995
The IPO was priced at $28 and ended its first day at $75

Lycos IPO
April 2, 1996
Priced at $16 and closed at $22
News: CNET

Excite IPO
April 4, 1996
Priced at $17 and closed at $20.
News: CNET

Yahoo! IPO
April 12, 1996
Yahoo priced at $24.50 hitting a first day high of $43 ($1 Billion market cap) before closing at $33.
News: CNET

Amazon.com IPO
May 15, 1997
Stock rose 30% from its IPO price of $18
News: CNET

Doubleclick IPO
February 23, 1998
Priced at $17 with a 57% first day jump to $26.75
News: Clickz

eBay IPO
September 24, 1998
eBay first day of trading saw a 163% rise in its stock’s value. First day market cap was $1.9 Billion
News: CNET, CNET

Google IPO
August 19, 2004
Google’s offering was valued at $1.6 Billion. By day’s end their market cap was $23 Billion
News: CNN, CNET

Google’s first day market capitalization was $23.1 Billion on August 19, 2004. After just one day Google had already surpassed Amazon.com ($15.4 Billion) and was slightly behind Yahoo at $38.2 Billion and eBay at $52 Billion. (Source: FinancialContent) Today (November 14, 2007) Google’s market cap is $200.29 Billion, far ahead of Yahoo and eBay who are at $33.58 Billion & $44.18 Billion respectively. Amazon.com is currently $32.60 Billion.

At $200.29 Billion Google has quickly become one of the largest companies in the United States. Currently the largest US companies according to market cap are ExxonMobil ($471.60B), General Electric ($394.24B), Microsoft ($317.43B), AT&T ($238.59B), Procter & Gamble ($222.18B), Berkshire Hathaway ($212.71B), Bank of America ($202.90B), Google ($200.29B), Johnson & Johnson ($191.42B) and Chevron ($181.90B). (All market cap data as of market close on November 14, 2007.)

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One Response to “Internet IPOs”

  1. Yahoo « Internet. Business. Ideas…Tom O’Keefe, on June 29th, 2008 at 2:13 am Said:

    [...] giant.  On April 12, 1996 Yahoo went public with a intra day market cap high of $1 billion.  (See Internet IPOs for [...]

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