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IPO, the abbreviation of Initial Public Offering is name given to the first offer for selling stock to the public done by a private company or corporation. Mostly, IPOs are issued by younger, smaller private companies who look for capital for expansion purposes. Large private companies can also issue IPOs in order to become publicly traded companies. In case of an Initial Public Offering, the company that issues IPOs may try and obtain the aid of an underwriting firm that acts as a helper in determining which type of security needs to be issued (if common or preferred), the time of IPO introduction in the market, and the best IPO offering price.
IPO purchasing is quite a risky type of investment. Those investors who fall in the group of individual investor, it becomes truly tough to predict what the stock will be resulting to on the initial trading day and in the future days. For this reason it requires brief historical data about the company for analysis purpose. In this page we will inform you about the role played by auction in IPOs. Keep scrolling to know more about IPO auction.

Bill Hambrecht, a venture capitalist tried to formulate that can reduce the traditional inefficient process of auction. According to the methods of the traditional IPO auction, the public sales of IPOs are made to the highest bidder. Bill Hambrecht prepared a way regarding the issue of IPO shares by a Dutch auction. This was just an attempt in order to minimize the heavy under-pricing mainly nurtured by underwriters. However, the investment banks mostly playing the role of the underwriters failed to adopt this Dutch auction strategy of IPOs effectively. Amongst the various companies using Dutch auction strategy of IPO, Google is one of the most established companies that became public by the use of auction. Right on the very first day of trading, Google’s share price rose upto 17% despite the use of the Dutch auction method.

Perception of IPOs is really a controversial issue. Those issuers and investors who view a successful IPO only as a means of making money as much as possible, the concept of IPO proved to be a complete failure to them. Those who consider a successful IPO from the perspective of the kind of investors that sooner or later made profit from under-pricing, the concept of IPO to them became a complete success. One should keep it in mind while going for an IPO auction that there are different sets of investors who bid in an auction. There are more institutional biddings, and very little individual bidding. The use of Internet in the IPO auction process is making the entire process quite easy and a fairer method of selling shares. This is the specialty of Dutch auction of IPO.

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