IPO's Success Doesn't Justify Google's Price
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One of the tongue-in-cheek rules that we column-writers have is, "Often wrong, never in doubt." Take a stand, don't duck and weave too much. But someone as opinionated as I am should not only have no doubt, but shouldn't be wrong too often. No one's perfect, though. As witness the column I wrote three weeks ago as I headed for vacation, warning you not to buy Google at its initial public offering price.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Google Inc., the most  popular Internet search engine, raised $1.67 billion on  Wednesday in its long-awaited IPO after slashing the price and  size of an offer beset by missteps and poor market conditions.
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When Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - news - research) went public, its leaders announced that the company was happy to pursue major projects with an uncertain financial payoff.
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Google Inc. forged ahead with its IPO auction even as the online search engine leader acknowledged a newly published magazine interview with its founders contained misleading information.
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adpowers writes &quot;It is official. Google will have its IPO debut at $85 per share. To quote the article, &#39;At that price, the low end of its recently revised range, Google raised $1.
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Few companies can offer Wall Street a 28 percent gain in profit and a 58 percent increase in revenue and then have their stock prices drop. But that's exactly what happened to Google, which had repeatedly exceeded the quarterly targets set by financial analysts -- until now.
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t worked. Google&#39;s auction process, both criticized and feared on Wall Street, could have gone much more smoothly, and investors might yet regret putting money into a company that plans to go its own way regardless of what others think.
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A great company doesn't necessarily translate into a great stock to own.
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Google Inc.'s GOOG.O initial  public offering of 19.6 million shares priced at $85 each, the  low end of their projected range, a source familiar with the  auction said on Wednesday, raising $1.67 billion and making it  the fourth-largest U.S. IPO this year.
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The initial public offering of Internet search engine Google Inc. was billed as a bonanza for millions of U.S. investors -- but the little guy, with check in hand, was left out of the party.
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Google's IPO share price is set at $85, the bottom of its projected range, as the internet search engine goes public.
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Google&#39;s auction process, both criticized and feared on Wall Street, could have gone much more smoothly, and investors may yet regret investing in a company that clearly plans to go its own way regardless of what others may think.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Google Inc. on Wednesday said it priced its long-awaited initial public offering at $85 per share, far below initial expectations, ending a tumultuous process beset by poor market ...
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Contrary to some published views, the Dutch auction process of Google&#39;s initial public offering (IPO) last week was a success for the internet search engine and its investors despite being undertaken in a &quot;horrendous&quot; market, a legal commentator has
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SAN JOSE, California --On the cusp of its voyage into public trading, Google&#39;s initial stock price was set at $85 and its market value calculated at $23 billion--less than originally expected, but still impressive for a 6-year-old dot-com ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a sign that Google Inc.'s initial public offering will not be as hot or big as expected, the Internet search giant said Wednesday it had lowered its estimated price range to between $85 and $95 per share, down from its earlier forecast of between $108 and $135 per share...
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In the end, we have another public company, one of 6,000 or so. For all of the yammering about the meaning, strength, and success or failure of the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) IPO, at the end of the day we have