NetSuite IPO debut takes a rocket ride
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NetSuite launches its IPO, with the highly anticipated offering soaring 15 percent in early morning trading, only to fall back to earth. Rocket ride anyone?
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Hosted business software provider NetSuite hopes to raise $75 million in an initial public offering.
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Blackstone Group&#39;s initial public  offering is seeing heavy demand from investors vying for shares  of the biggest U.S. IPO in five years, which plans to price on  Thursday.
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NetSuite&#39;s initial public offering raised $185.4 million, close to double the amount the company originally forecast the IPO would generate and a positive sign for the market of hosted, software-as-a-service business applications.NetSuite, a provider of hosted applications for small and midsize organizations, sold 6.2 million shares of common stock at $26 per share via auction and its underwriters acted on their option to buy an additional 930,000 shares, the company said Wednesday.The $185.4 million is a gross amount from which underwriting discounts and expenses will be deducted, the company said. Moreover, 365,000 of the shares bought by the underwriters were owned by stockholders like NetSuite&#39;s CEO and chief technology officer, so the proceeds from those shares -- about $9.5 million -- won&#39;t go to the company.In the final IPO prospectus, NetSuite had estimated that, if the underwriters exercised their option in full -- as they did -- NetSuite&#39;s IPO net proceeds would be approximately $161.9 million.NetSuite initially set a range of $13 to $16 per share for its IPO but subsequently raised it and eventually set the price at $26 per share on Thursday of last week, the day when the stock started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the &quot;N&quot; symbol.At midmorning Wednesday, the stock was trading at $34.85, down about 10 percent from its previous close. Its highest point so far is $45.98.Incorporated in 1998, NetSuite sells ERP (enterprise resource planning), CRM (customer relationship management) and e-commerce applications on a hosted, subscription-based model, in which customers access the software via the Internet and don&#39;t need to install it on their premises.This software-as-a-service model, championed by companies like Salesforce.com and Google, is considered a significant threat to the traditional approach from vendors like Microsoft of having customers implement software on their own PCs and servers.As of Sept. 30 of this year, NetSuite had over 5,400 active customers, according to its IPO prospectus . In 2006, the company had revenue of $67.2 million and a net loss of $35.7 million. In the first nine months of this year, it generated $76.8 million in revenue and racked up a net loss of $20.6 million, according to the prospectus.NetSuite plans to use its IPO proceeds to pay off an $8 million balance on a line of credit with Tako Ventures, an entity controlled by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and to possibly make acquisitions.As of Nov. 30, Ellison controlled about 60 percent of NetSuite&#39;s outstanding stock -- some 31.9 million shares -- but Ellison transferred those shares into a holding company, NetSuite Restricted Holdings. The move is meant to &quot;effectively eliminate&quot; Ellison&#39;s voting power and avoid potential conflicts of interests, according to the prospectus.NetSuite also plans to devote between $10 million and $15 million for capital expenditures, including the purchase of property, plant and equipment and the addition of a second data-center facility, and for working capital and other general purposes, including its international expansion. NetSuite currently provides its hosted applications out of a single data center, which the company admits in the prospectus is a risk that could harm its business should there be any service disruption at this facility.NetSuite also said it may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire other businesses, products or technologies, although it doesn&#39;t have any agreements or commitments for any specific acquisitions at the moment. The money it doesn&#39;t spend will be invested in short-term, interest-bearing investment grade securities.&#160;
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Online auction The long-rumoured and speculated Initial Public Offering (IPO) by Netsuite, the software as a service (SaaS) specialist, is at last underway. and it looks like it will use a novel way to determine the share price and the volume of shares to be issued.â¦
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The brokerage unit's IPO tumbles below its opening price.
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NEW YORK -- The IPO market may not be as large as it once was, but there is still expected to be plenty of room for this week's debut of private equity powerhouse Blackstone Group, likely one of the biggest initial public offerings in US history.
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Blackstone Group LP priced its initial public offering at the top end of the range on Thursday, even as lawmakers pushed for its delay, raising $4.13 billion in the largest U.S. IPO since 2002.
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InPhonic finally made its public debut amid insatiable investor demand for IPOs.
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The most anticipated IPO in history has passed. After all the hype and garment rending, how'd it go?
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A sudden patent lawsuit wasn't enough to mute investor interest in the IPO.
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NetSuite on Wednesday set the initial price of its stock at $26, greatly exceeding its original estimate.
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Faced with strong investor demand, NetSuite has raised its IPO pricing range by 46 percent since setting its initial range earlier this month. The on-demand enterprise applications company anticipates setting its final IPO price after the markets close We