On May 18, 2012, Facebook became a publicly traded company. Facebook’s stock has had some definite peaks and valleys since then. The value of the company has yet to reach its opening mark of $38 per share, settling in the $26-$28 neighborhood. MarketWatch compiled a timeline of Facebook’s year after the initial public offering.
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Goldman Sachs added to the positive sentiment about Facebook on Wall Street, boosting its 12-month share-price target for the social network to $38 from $35.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg touched on several topics, including the social network’s initial public offering and share price slump; the company’s mobile issues; skepticism over advertising on social networks; new business opportunities for Facebook; privacy; and the economy.
Do you remember that pot of taxation-revenue gold the state of California was expecting under the rainbow following Facebook’s initial public offering? Hold that thought.
Facebook filed the seventh and what will likely be the final amendment to its S-1 initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last night, increasing the price range of its shares and making more of them available.
