GOOGLE is going public with IPO

[Forge]

Microsoft has $40billion on hand and Google is in the cross hairs. Microsoft will own Goodle or destroy it.

This is a great day for the founders, a chance for them and other investors to get their money out, as well as stock-holding employees to do very well.

Google is a smart business idea that is easily repeatable. Or bought.

So Matt, I'm curious, what would you suggest for a small time investor? Get in ASAP and pay whatever it goes for, or wait a week or so to see if it settles down? With MS hungry like they are, do you think Google is a good investment or not? If MS does buy them out, would the Google stock benefit or suffer from that?

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

So Matt, I'm curious, what would you suggest for a small time investor? Get in ASAP and pay whatever it goes for, or wait a week or so to see if it settles down? With MS hungry like they are, do you think Google is a good investment or not? If MS does buy them out, would the Google stock benefit or suffer from that?

Small time investor has to thik long term.

As to Google, it is what it is, competition will reduce their market share. If they are going public, then MS would rather compete with them than buy them (they would have already bought them).

Price will surge dring the IPO and associated transactions, after that it will drop. Google's model is a 'per-click' fee service. Pay 5 cents to $50 for each listing, then pay Google a fee when you are clicked on. More clicks gets you higher up on the listing.

It is a great model, but Internet searching technology is well understood and eventually the Internet will become regionalized as large companues start to control more of it.

Google will continue to make money; it costs very little to operate. I would add it to a potfolio, but I would not look at this as an opportunity to make some quick cash.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

i think this IPO is bad news for Google. they've made a great service without outside forces trying to push them in any direction. now they're gonna have people expecting more profit, probably trying to change the Adwords model.

MS is going to compete with Google, not buy them. They're investing a ton of R&D in search technology and definitely plan to depose Google from the throne.

 

[Code]

There is NO scheduled IPO for google.

No amount of hyperbole from newsweek and time magazines will force it to happen any faster.

Fact is, SEC regulations requires them to go public within 120 days of finishing the SEC forms, which HASN'T happened yet. The SEC has NOT valuated them at all.

 

[gotmilk]

There is NO scheduled IPO for google.

No amount of hyperbole from newsweek and time magazines will force it to happen any faster.

Fact is, SEC regulations requires them to go public within 120 days of finishing the SEC forms, which HASN'T happened yet. The SEC has NOT valuated them at all.

They have more than 500 registered shareholders which is why they have to file with the S.E.C.....technically...they already are public based upon number of shareholders and revenues.

Sergei and Larry do not want to lose control and that's a major issue right now. They were told to reverse merge into a trading shell instead of paying huge banking fees. Sadly, the "shots" are now being played by the CFO and not the two founders.

Hell...this should run like TASR did over the last year...from $3 to a split adjusted $330 before profit takers dropped the price recently.

 

[Razorguns]

Yeah unless you got "ins" to buy right at the first second -- you wn't make much money.

Think about it. It opens at $8. All the lucky folks buy RIGHT THERE.

by the time your average joe gets ahold of it, it's up to $45 or so. So majority buy at $45 (making google the most amount of money).

It goes up to maybe $54 or $60. Stays around there for a few months. Starts dropping. Losing money. Perhaps rising. Who knows.

But the guys who got in at $8 and sold at $60 made BANK! Be one of those guys. Not the 99% who bought at $45.

That's how it works in the movies.

 

[Forge]

But the guys who got in at $8 and sold at $60 made BANK! Be one of those guys. Not the 99% who bought at $45.

That's how it works in the movies.

Yeah, but I don't have the knowledge or connections to be one of those guys, so I think I'm just gonna sit back and watch it when / if it goes public. I'm probably better off buying more Penn National stocks to be honest.

 

[collegiateLifter]

Don't buy IPOs or new offerings, pretty simple. IPOs are generally a fool's game

 

[juve]

sigh...

 

[gonelifting]

I have not followed this story AT ALL, but when the hot IPO`s of the late 90`s were going on, you could "get in" them BEFORE the IPO date. I was able to get a few IPO`s prior to them opening. If they are valued at (for example) $8/share they could open at $40 or higher, it would`nt matter, you still had x amount at $8/share.

There`s no way you can buy at the IPO date and get a good price. Who knows, maybe it`s different now and it`ll trade sideways or flounder for a while and then you get lucky but that`s just a gamble. YOU NEED to get in BEFORE the IPO date. Call your broker, You may have to have a "preferred" account status with them.

PS I had a discount broker and I did it. You don`t necessarily need a full service broker. good luck.