Social networking site Facebook has as expected announced to the stock exchange. The company has its initial public offering filed with the Us SEC. With the shares is an amount of $ 5 billion is involved.
The request showed that there were monthly 845 million user accounts are active on the site, while there are almost a half a billion daily active. Together they have more than 100 billion friendships generated. In addition, there daily, 2.7 billion “likes” handed out at the site. The number of active users is still growing with many millions per month. Every day, 250 million photos on Facebook, and the storage of photos and videos, the cost of the site has a total of more than 100 petabytes of data.
It further showed that Facebook last year 1 billion dollar profit, on a turnover of $ 3.7 billion. 85 percent of the revenue comes from ads. The social-networking site, this type of information with a request to ipo. Previously, financial figures are not released. In addition, it was reported that the vast majority of the revenue coming from ads. Spelletjesmaker Zynga, which had been to the fair, went and games for Facebook, is responsible for 12 percent of the revenue of Facebook.
The amount of Facebook shares will be sold at the start of the trade is still unknown. This information has been omitted from the document. Probably start trading in the spring, but an exact date was not mentioned. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and ceo of Facebook, owns reportedly little more than a quarter of the shares. In 2013, given the executive a salary of 1 dollar per year, his income is probably primarily of stock options.
There are the last time many rumors come out about an initial public offering of Facebook. This was already suspected that Facebook application with the SEC in would serve. Last year, it was still suspected that the company behind the site in the amount of 10 billion dollars to wanted to catch up with the ipo, but this turns out to be the half to have become. The total value of Facebook is estimated at 75 to 100 billion dollars.
Director Mark Zuckerberg has previously stated opponent of an ipo. Business rules require the company, however, inspection of his figures to give because Facebook has more than 500 investors. Although the company also, every quarter, just the numbers had to be able to publish, Zuckerberg elected to the stock exchange and so also the financial fruits of that obligation to pick.
Zuckerberg would fear that by the ipo, many workers are busier and are going to make about the stock price, then, about further development of the product. Hundreds of employees of the company have on paper already have a share in the company. The public offering would be about five hundred to a thousand employees, including developers, in a blow to be a millionaire.
