Shares US$38, Facebook Make New History

Latest news continues to emerge from the plan's initial public offering or an initial public offering (IPO) of shares Facebook Inc. Social networking company has officially set the stock price at the level of U.S. $ 38 per sheet, or the highest level of U.S. $ 34-38 price range.

With these prices, is estimated to be scooped up fresh funds up to U.S. $ 16 billion or Rp144 trillion. However, the IPO funds could rise to U.S. $ 18.4 billion, or Rp165, 6 trillion, if so remove the excess allotment Facebook (over-allotment).

Through this action, would be recorded diperekirakan Facebook valuation to U.S. $ 104 billion. Mark Zuckerberg's company is also going to make history as the first U.S. company has a valuation of over U.S. $ 100 billion on its debut.

The plan, stock up on the stock will begin trading Nasdaq stocks the United States on Friday, local time. Acting as underwriter of the IPO Facebook is Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

"It (Facebook IPO) would go crazy," said analyst Greencrest Capital, Max Wolff. "It's all about the future, so this sort of Facebook IPO lottery tickets," he said.

Wolff estimates that the Facebook stock trades will continue to strengthen the prime and will move like a parabola in the wake of the investors' expectations. "Shares will be traded with hope, but I do not know how to calculate the value of this expectation," he said.

Facebook investor enthusiasm for stocks is very high indeed. Though a number of people actually questioned the company's ability to create profit in the long run.

This pessimism comes after Facebook had reported a decrease in inter-quarter earnings, announced last April.

While the other warned about high stock prices up. In their records, price up the equivalent of 100 times the earnings history of Apple Inc. Google is only 14 times and 19 times. This makes the stock up a bit risky.

"Some people would not be surprised when growing up just moving in a moderate range in the coming years," said Portfolio Manager of RCM Capital Manager, Walter Price.

Price estimates will be traded stock up on the level of U.S. $ 42 per share, up 11 percent of the price first.