
facebook & Goldman Sachs
Billet invité. Nous en étions restés à l’épisode précédent : comment Goldman Sachs avait distribué une émission hors marché d’actions de 2,1 milliards de dollars de Facebook afin de se remplir les poches, d’en faire bénéficier au passage des clients privilégiés, et de faire grimper à 50 milliards de dollars la valorisation de son gros client. Donnant-donnant. Il n’avait pas fallu plus de cinq mois pour que celle-ci double de valeur, laissant un peu pantois les observateurs. En un temps à nouveau record, moins d’un mois, un nouveau bond de la valorisation a depuis été enregistré et Facebook est valorisé à 60 milliards de dollars.
MIRACLES UN PEU SOLLICITÉS
"Our goal is to have an efficient market price--a rational price set by informed buyers and sellers--for our shares at the IPO and afterward," the filing states. "Our goal is to achieve a relatively stable price in the days following the IPO and that buyers and sellers receive a fair price at the IPO." "... According to its filing, Google seems willing, eager even, to start off life as a publicly traded company on the right foot, hoping to steer clear of some of the sweetheart dealmaking that characterized the last wave of go-go IPOs.
Tale of 2 IPOs
Le conte de deux introductions en bourse
Dutch auction
A Dutch auction 1957 in Germany to sell fruits A Dutch auction is a type of auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price, or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price. This is also known as a clock auction or an open-outcry descending-price auction.Facebook : de la rationalité des chiffres et de l’irrationalité des marchés » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism
Just as Goldman Sachs Group Inc . prepares to unveil business standards aimed at improving its reputation after settling fraud charges last year, the Facebook Inc. stock sale to clients shines new light on the firm’s potential conflicts of interest. In pitching as much as $1.5 billion in stock in the closely held social-networking company to wealthy investors, Goldman Sachs disclosed that it might sell or hedge its own $375 million investment without warning clients. The company’s disclosures didn’t reveal that one of its star fund managers, Richard A. Friedman, rejected the deal as inappropriate for his clients. Enlarge image Goldman Efforts to Burnish Image May Be Undermined
Goldman Bid to Polish Image May Be Undermined by Facebook
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation
Facebook et Goldman Sachs: un bel imbroglio - Démystifier la finance - Blog LeMonde.fr
While everyone has been busy wondering when Facebook was going to IPO, most were looking past the first question: how is Facebook going to IPO? But not TechCrunch alum Evelyn Rusli and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Tonight the pair are reporting that Goldman Sachs has just led a major new investment in the social network. An investment that values it at a nice round $50 billion.
$1 Billion Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree.
Flirtatious Labs — The Facebook-Goldman deal is NOT indicative of a bubble in social tech
The Facebook-Goldman deal is NOT indicative of a bubble in social tech I don’t think the Facebook deal gives any significant indication of a social tech bubble, especially because we’re talking about Facebook here. Ok, the P/E is huge BUT: - Investors have seen that the tech giants who have risen to ubiquity, bubble or not, will deliver value. Google is a good example of that, and granted GOOG’s P/E is about 10, but it doesn’t mean buying Facebook now isn’t a smart move. - Investors are betting Facebook will go Google’s way, and my guess is that they are hoping Facebook at least doubles its revenues each year, or better yet, achieves higher profitability through mobile social (see Gree in Japan with profitabiliy over 50% for a glimpse of a potential future), so that within 5 years profit goes north of 10B$, and valuation reaches 200b$.By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN , LIZ RAPPAPORT and AARON LUCCHETTI Inundated with demand, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS +1.07% plans to stop taking orders for shares of Facebook Inc. on Thursday, and has told some would-be investors to expect just a small fraction of the shares they requested, according to people familiar with the situation. Goldman Sachs plans to stop taking orders for Facebook shares on Thursday, and has told some investors to expect a fraction of the shares they requested. Neal Lipschutz, David Weidner and Liz Rappaport discuss.
Goldman flooded with facebook orders
Le Wall Street Journal révèle que Goldman Sachs croulerait sous les demandes d’achat d’actions Facebook, au point qu’il cesserait actuellement de répondre aux demandes de ses clients. Pour rappel, Facebook a récemment levé 500 millions de dollars auprès de la banque d’investissement Goldman Sachs ainsi que de Digital Sky Technology, un investisseur russe, ce qui valoriserait le réseau social à plus de 50 milliards de dollars. Cette opération est assez particulière dans la mesure où l’accord prévoit à Goldman Sachs la possibilité de lever ensuite 1,5 milliards d’euros supplémentaires en proposant à ses meilleurs clients de souscrire à l’opération par l’intermédiaire d’une holding créée par Goldman. Cette technique permet en fait d’éviter à Facebook de dépasser le seuil fatidique de 499 actionnaires, ce qui obligerait les dirigeants de Facebook à procéder à une introduction en bourse qui impliquerait une transparence financière total à l’égard des marchés financiers.

