Submitted 8 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-guides-ipo-may-price-153453004.html?guccounter=2
Get your shorts ready, this will be very interesting to follow. Seems like the stock will appear tomorrow already?
I fully expect a nosedive in stock price but who knows. Maybe a pump and dump.
😂
Are you guys coming to my birthday party? It’s gonna be the biggest most awesomest day ever!! Mom said we’ll have a bouncy castle!
Source: Spez and the idiots who paid him.
even normal, less hyped IPOs often nosedive first.
… but they want to cater to AI and the AI bubble is still growing, so it’s very unpredictable IMO
Thanks for sharing, but they seem like the last people one should ask about the evaluation…
catloaf@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The source: reddit and its bankers. Like I’m going to believe that.
Also, the valuation works out to only $750m? That seems low considering how much they’ve been hyping it.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Pretty normal. They sell off a set % of the company’s shared during an Initial Public Offering and set the share base price at their calculated expected valuation. Reddit ownz these shares and sets the sell price accordingly. Raising 750m would be selling about 11.5% stake if they think they’re worth $6,500mil.
The market is not obligated to buy shares at Reddit’s stated price. Once they’re on the market shares can go up or down depending on how realistic the market thinks Reddit’s stated valuation is. If they think the valuation is crap they’ll not buy until the share price drops to their expected valuation.
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are essentially selling that percentage of the company to the public at large. Not enough for any shareholder to have any power over it, but enough for the company to get some spending money.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Which would be good considering they can’t make a profit. Although, I wonder how that makes them worth anything. The intricacies of legalized gambling and money laundering escapes me.
polygon6121@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you are interested you can read the prospect: www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/…/reddit-sx1a1.htm
Page 13 is “the offering” Page 80 is a table of how the shares are divided
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They were looking at selling 8% for the initial IPO offering is how.
Aside from that, there valuation is double what it would be. This stock will wind up settling at 15 to 20 a share within a couple months, IMO. Their revenue isn’t really that much, the ai data isn’t going to become much more profitable for them after this year, and redditors have been getting less thrilled with the site for the past 5 years. They’re peaking in profits right now. It won’t get better for them.