The Biggest IPOs On Record

BANGALORE: The world is moving at a fast pace; development in new businesses requires capital, and the basic solution to knock in is to go public. The idea of an IPO is to raise capital for the firm subjecting shares.They give out shares or ownership on percentage basis in the company in exchange of initial funding.

In an IPO, everyone who already owns shares in the company be likely to get exceedingly rich. The amount of money that any given firm can bring in during their IPO is reliant on what the market considers the total value of the company is. That’s how the business works out here, and if you are eager to note then here is the list of top 7 trending IPO’s in the world.

1. Alibaba – $25 Billion

Founded by Jack Ma, based in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba is a business-to-business market platform and the largest e-commerce company in China. Alibaba has officially become the largest public offering in history.

On 5 September 2014, the group in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—set a U.S. $60- to $66- per share price range for its scheduled IPO. On 22 September 2014, Alibaba announced their confirmation that they had exercised a green shoe option to sell 15 percent more shares than originally planned, boosting the total amount of the IPO to $25 billion.

Alibaba is witnessing an exponential growth, its market stretching to the western countries as well. Alibaba will be listing itself in America rather than in China. The company is said to be valued at somewhere around $110 billion.

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