NetSuite raises IPO pricing range, as offering nears debut
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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
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on Thursday it raised its takeover offer for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $56 per share, above a rival bid of $54 per share from private equity firm Blackstone Group that Equity Office has already accepted.
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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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By Luke Timmerman, Seattle Times  Dec. 19--Eli Lilly raised its bid for Icos to $34 a share Monday in a last-minute change of strategy, but a major shareholder who opposed the original $32 price vowed to continue pushing for more.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Netcom Group Corp. (Hong Kong) Ltd. (0906.HK) Wednesday priced its initial public offering at HK$8.48 a share, allowing it to raise US$1.
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on Thursday it had raised its takeover offer for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $56 per share, or $23.24 billion, above a rival bid of $54 per share from private equity firm Blackstone Group.
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Animation unit&#39;s IPO up 39% in early trading as investors rush to grab a stake in Shrek. The sale of 29 million DreamWorks shares at $28 each raised $812 million from investors eager to get a piece of the
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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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NetSuite set the initial price of its stock at $26, exceeding its original estimate of $13 to $16 per share.
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NetSuite on Wednesday&#160;boosted the estimated price range for its IPO&#160;(initial public offering) for the second time in just two days, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The range now stands at $19 to $22, after NetSuite raised it to $16 to $19 on Tuesday.
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Initial public offering, which is expected to raise more than $480 million, could be set for as early as Thursday.
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NetSuite on Wednesday set the initial price of its stock at US$26, greatly exceeding its original estimate.
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InfoWorld - NetSuite'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.
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Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. yesterday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as $1.25 billion in an initial public offering, following in the footsteps of rival Blackstone Group.
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Many have been expecting the initial public offering (IPO) from the Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) to be hot. The shares were originally priced at $20 to $22 each.
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison raised his company&#39;s offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 a share, or $9.2 billion, calling the fifth bid over a 17-month takeover battle the &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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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¦