Facebook more than Yahoo!

 


Shares of the largest in the world by number of users of social network Facebook is rapidly growing in price. Investors rush to buy them in advance out of the company at the exchange.

Now Facebook shares are traded only on the secondary market . Based on current prices ($ 76 per ordinary share) the cost of the entire company at $ 33.7 billion, although in June an American investment fund Elevation Partners acquired its shares, based on an assessment of 100% to $ 24 billion A Russian Digital Sky Technologies, Meeting on 10% Facebook in May 2009 are estimated its total to $ 10 billion

Now Facebook passes on the cost of such giants of Internet business, as eBay and Yahoo!.

Investors rush to buy shares of Facebook before she applied for a IPO. Analysts expect the IPO Facebook will be the largest deployment in the IT-market since 2004, when a public company became Google. However, this does not happen before 2012, made it clear itself Facebook.

Its employees and stockholders may sell their existing shares on the secondary market, and many use it. True, Facebook is trying to limit the scope of the trade: the law of its shareholders may not exceed 500. So far, according to informed sources, their much smaller, however the company is buying up part of the paper itself or delegate this right to existing co-owners such as Tiger Global.

Current quotes sources close to Facebook, consider excessive. The appeal is only a small number of shares, while investors do not even have a clear idea of the financial performance of the company, they explain. 

Facebook - a social network. ASOA has more than 500 million accounts.The co -owner the founder of the company ,headed by Mark Zukerberk and its employees ,the american billionaire Peter Theil ,Accel Parteners ,Microsoft ,Digital Sky Technology .Revenue (2010, forecast Facebook) - $ 1-1,1 billion

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