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Re: [Plug] Question of the Day:Redhat IPO
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Here's my response to this question -- a quote from today's
financial times:
> This week's share price declines have also left a
> question over the ability of young, cash-starved internet
> companies to continue to use the financial markets to
> back their growth. A number of companies to launch
> initial public offerings in recent days have seen their
> shares fall below the prices at which they were sold to
> investors, marking a reversal of the big premiums that
> many traded at earlier this year.
Not all companies' share prices increase after the IPO.
Some actually go down -- this is what happened with both
N2K and CDnow. Being blocked out of the initial offering
might end up being a stroke of luck. :)
I hope this doesn't happen to Red Hat, but you never know.
Stocks are risky.
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