| Facebook, Inc., the world’s largest social networking website, which was launched in February 2004 and now has over 865 million users, filed a registration statement to go public on February 1, 2012. The offering, which may be valued in the $75 to $100 billion range, is expected to raise a minimum of $5 billion.
Company website: http://www.facebook.com/
SEC filings: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=facebook&match=&CIK=&filenum=&State=&Country=&SIC=&owner=exclude&Find=Find+Companies&action=getcompany
From the Company’s S-1:
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.
We believe that some of the most important innovations in history have been tools that make it easier or faster for one human being to share something with another.
Facebook enables you to share the things you care about with the people you care about. You can publish your ideas, opinions, pictures and activities to your friends, family, colleagues or the world. We believe that Facebook gives every person a voice—an opportunity to say: I exist, and this is my story.
Facebook also enables you to discover what’s going on in the world around you, through the eyes and ears of people you trust. Every day hundreds of millions of people come to Facebook to find out what their friends have to share—the best new music they’ve listened to, photos from their recent honeymoon, who they plan to vote for in the next election. Each person’s experience on Facebook is unique and completely personalized—akin to reading a real-time newspaper of stories compiled just for them that they can carry with them wherever they go.
People connect with Facebook to connect with people. We believe that we are at the forefront of enabling faster, easier and richer communication between people around the world.
Underwriters: Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Goldman Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and Allen & Company LLC
Estimated gross proceeds (preliminary): $5,000,000,000
Stock symbol: FB
Revenue (millions)
Year ending December 31, 2011: $3,711
Year ending December 31, 2010: $1,974
Year ending December 31, 2009: $777
Year ending December 31, 2008: $272
Year ending December 31, 2007: $153
Operating profits (loss) (millions)
Year ending December 31, 2011: $1,756
Year ending December 31, 2010: $1,032
Year ending December 31, 2009: $262
Year ending December 31, 2008: ($55)
Year ending December 31, 2007: ($124)
Net income (loss) (millions)
Year ending December 31, 2011: $1,000
Year ending December 31, 2010: $606
Year ending December 31, 2009: $229
Year ending December 31, 2008: ($56)
Year ending December 31, 2007: ($138)
Earnings per share (fully diluted)
Year ending December 31, 2011: $.46
Year ending December 31, 2010: $.28
Year ending December 31, 2009: $.10
Year ending December 31, 2008: ($.06)
Year ending December 31, 2007: ($.16) |
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