Fresh Funds Facebook IPO Jumped

High investor demand in the social network to Facebook Inc improve public offering price of shares (IPO) of up to 25 percent. Of course, this price increase will inflate raupan fresh funds of up to U $ S16 billion, or about Rp144 trillion.

The news agency Reuters, Thursday, May 17, 2012, reported the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg did not just raise prices, but also add 84 million shares at the IPO is to be 421 million shares.

These additional shares will be sold to a number of investors, including the PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, the owner of James Breyer Accel Partners, and investment manager of Tiger Global Management.

After this transaction, Zuckerberg voting rights will be reduced from 57.3 percent to around 55.8 percent, as a result of the issuance of additional shares.

Zuckerberg announced plans to increase the range of stock prices in the last seconds before the IPO will make up a peraup IPO funds in United States history, after Visa Inc and General Motors.

Massive demand feared it would create revenue growth slowed and Facebook users, and this will lead to the question how Facebook in the long run.

One of the companies advertising on Facebook named GM expressed concern over revenue growth up. GM also confirmed it will pull out of advertising on Facebook.

"This is more than just a spectacle, from the moment for an IPO," said analysts at Capital GreenCrest, Max Wolff.

But Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser said the announcement GM to pull the ads from Facebook a while will not make a bad perception of the IPO, as this will not mempengruhi other advertising companies.

"The demand for the IPO may not be materially affected by GM move," said Wieser.

Facebook raised a range of target price to U $ U $ S34 to S38 per share, from the initial target of $ U $ S28 to S35. by raising the target range, it will be able to compete with other internet company by market value, such as Amazon.com Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc..

"The range of price increases is not likely to make up the stock will double," said Wolff. He expects the first day gain of about 10 percent

CEO Zuckerberg said in the filing IPO price range is higher after a week of bidding. In offering up the share price it will also do roadshows across the country.