What is meant by Red Herring in book building of IPO?
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Its a preliminary prospectus prior to the IPO, with no price or number of shares stated.  Its called a Red Herring because it states in red it's not trying to sell shares, until the registration is approved by the SEC.
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Ah, there's oodles of different ideas.  I like the one that narrows it to five basic rules: (1) Does it make a profit?; (2) Does the graph look like the price keeps going up?; (3) Is the news good and getting better?; (4) Is it doing better than its nearest competitors?; (5) Does it look like it is going to keep making a profit?
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Whenever a company comes out with an IPO (Initial Public Offering), its valuation is done either internally by the company or most likely by an Investment Bank/ Private Equity, depending on its current revenues, profits, future prospects, management transparency, good corporate governance, etc.\nWith all these parameters and more they come to an approximate value of the company and decide the price band within which the valuation must be fixed, i.e. a lower limit and upper limit is fixed (Example price is between $20-$24)\nWhen potential investors apply for the shares they mention the price that they are willing to pay for the share. This is called 100% BOOK BUILDING, which is the most transparent method of arriving at the valuation of the company. \nIf the shares are over-subscribed, then the shares are allotted to the highest bidders and if any shares remain then to the nest lowest bidder and so on. So as a potential investor I think that if at $20 (Above example), I wont be allotted shares because a lot of people will bid more than me, I will increase my price. However if I think that the high price is unjustified, I will bid at the lower limit.
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If you read the *fine print that’s usually on the page it explains why, the words are there to make sure that it is actually a human signing up for the account, and not a machine, the words usually have some picture or something though them, that is created by an algorithm that is supposable "totally undistinguishable" by today’s computer systems, so the company doesn’t waste time, resources, as well as money on a computer, that could possibly belong to a hacker, or a company tiring to make a quick buck.
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That is when they went IPO.  You aren't very smart are you.
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Don't know which country you are talking about, but it is possible it means "Proprietary Company", "Private Company" or "Public Company".\n\nIn most countries, "private", "closed", "proprietary" or some other similar title implies a smaller company with few shareholders that therefore has fewer compliance regulations placed on it. It can not list on an exchange.\n\nIn most countries, "public" companies usually have many shareholders, therefore have more compliance regulations placed on it and can list on an exchange after complying with all the listing rules.
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When a company decides to go public they hire an underwriter.  The underwriter tears apart the books and the business model of the company and figures out a valuation for the business.  Between the company and the underwriter, they then figure out how much money to raise.  That will determine how many shares are offered and at what price.  These days (most of the time) when a company does an IPO, the main underwriting company guarantees that the IPO will be succesful.  They do this by agreeing to purchase all of the shares of the IPO.  They then turn around and offer the shares to the public.  Because of the risk to the underwriter, financially as well as reputation, the underwriter usually prices the IPO a little low to ensure success of floating the shares.  They also want to show immediate gains for their institutional and bigger clients that purchase the shares.  This will build their reputation and will help them with future deals.  \n\nWhen a company decides to do a Dutch Auction, the underwriter loses control of the deal and doesn't like the increased risk.  The benefit to the company is that they receive the true market value for their shares.  In the Google situation that was great because the company got a lot more money, but it can also go the other way.
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Maybe they read this?\nhttp://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulebreaker/2000/rulebreaker000525.htm
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I'm afraid that your question is apparently based on several separate misunderstandings of the way the stock market works, so that it is not possible for your question to be answered. If you are asking this for a specific reason (for example, if you are trying to figure out a way to fund a startup company) then you really should consult with an attorney who specializes in corporate law. If you are asking just out of academic interest, let me point out a few of the basic problems:\n\n1) A company with 20,000 investors cannot, under US securities law, have an IPO. An IPO is an initial public offering, but if a company has over 300 investors, it is required to file publicly, so it would already BE public, and thus could not have an INITIAL public offering in the first place.\n\n2) At an IPO, the company initially begins selling shares (not "stocks") at a particular price, after which the market bids the price up and/or down. Therefore, a company is not legally allowed to offer any particular class of people (such as investors) a discount to the market price.\n\n3) The number of shares being bought or sold is completely irrelevant without looking at the larger picture. One share of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is currently trading at about $87,000 but one share of many 'penny stocks' trade at $0.01.  Therefore the value of 2,000,000 shares (not "stocks") depends on a large number of factors, such as whether there a total of 2,000,00 or 200,000,000 shares issued.\n\nAs you can see, this is a big, complicated question, and you really, really should speak with an attorney if you are thinking about DOING anything along these lines.\n\nA good way to get a quick introduction to how the stock market works is to play the Stock Market Game, which is at the URL below (and it's free).
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More detail would have been nice, as there are many ways to answer that question.  Here are a few possible answers:\n\n1.  A public offering (e.g., IPO) or a private offering.\n\n2.  If only considering public companies:  An Initial Public Offering (IPO) or a Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO).  A seasoned offering is one where a company that has already gone public goes back and sells more stock.\n\n3.  If only considering initial  public offerings of stocks, then there are several methods -- including Firm Committment IPOs, where the underwriter assumes the risk of bringing the new securities to market -- guaranteeing a minimum sale and a price -- and Best Efforts IPO where no such guarantee exists.
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It is a relatively inexpensive method that gets the name of the company and product out in front of the public.   \n\nYou say your release got into the search databases of major search engines -- that is a very good result that may produce positive effects for the company in the long-term.
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It depends on how "hot" the IPO is and how many shares are out there.  Typically you have to be a client of one of the brokerage firms underwriting the offering.  They are the ones that are actually financing the offering.  If the IPO is for a really hot company or sector, and it's almost certain to go way up, those shares get allotted to the brokerage firm's very best customers.  These are usually going to be institutional buyers like pension funds, mutual funds and hedge funds.  A small amount of stock is available for the general public, but it's very hard to get in on a good one.  If you are a small investor and your broker calls you up to tell you he can get you all the shares you want of an upcoming IPO - run for the hills, that means nobody else wants it.\n\nIPOs are considered speculative investments because there is no trading history for the stock, so if you're a new investor, you may get shut out of offerings for suitability reasons too.
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For stocks that have JUST started trading:\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/business-information/--pageid__10008,PDate__M:2006:01--/global-ipoc-index.xhtml\n\nFor future companies going public:\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/business-information/--pageid__10005,Date__2006:1--/global-ipoc-index.xhtml\n\nJust be aware that MOST companies do not perform like Google did.
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It is a Public Income note - basically a hybrid equity/debt security.  Companies issue them to raise capital, much like a preferred stock.  People buy them for the dividend flow, typically.
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Anytime you know something the public doesn't know and use that info to trade a stock, that's insider trading.\n\nPeriod!
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There was a scam where in people maipulates some IPO's of TCS etc.......and the DMAT accounts of these people were with broking firms like karvy, indiabulls, dhfc, oswal wtc....so as of my till the enquery is complete...thy r banned.\n\nIf u want any good recomendations u can contack...\n\nhttp://spaces.msn.com/paise-pe-paisa/
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I think you are referring to Initial Public Offerings or IPOs.\n\nBelow I've listed what I could find. There aren't as many resources as there used to be during the Silicon Valley heyday, but there are a few decent sites in there.\n\nGood Luck! :-)