Prospectus of Facebook and its stock value (Summary) PDF

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A prospectus is a formal document that is required by and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that provides details about an investment offering to the public. A prospectus is filed for offerings of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. And this is Prospectus of facebook...

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ANALYSIS OF THE FACEBOOK PROSPECTUS Facebook, Inc. is offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. They will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. This is their initial public offering and no public market currently exists for our shares of Class A common stock. They have two classes of common stock, Class A common stock and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except voting and conversion rights. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote. Each share of Class B common stock is entitled to ten votes and is convertible at any time into one share of Class A common stock. The holders of their outstanding shares of Class B common stock will hold approximately 96.0% of the voting power of their outstanding capital stock following this offering, and their founder, Chairman, and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, will hold or have the ability to control approximately 55.9% of the voting power of their outstanding capital stock following this offering. Their Class A common stock has been approved for listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “FB.” They are a “controlled company” under the corporate governance rules for NASDAQ-listed companies, and our board of directors has determined not to have an independent nominating function and instead to have the full board of directors be directly responsible for nominating members of their board. They and the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 63,185,042 shares of Class A common stock to cover over-allotments. The Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators have not approved or disapproved of these securities, or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

There are many other information that have been mentioned under this prospectus like the; risk factors , capital stocks, management, underwriting, legal matters, Corporate information etc. As it is like an advertisement for the company which makes people to come and buy the shares i.e., a document with a motive to make you/public buy a share. -Facebook prospectus comes under the shelf prospectus (section-31). - And this has fulfilled all the requirements of a prospectus also. - They issue one formatted prospectus for one year and can update the prospectus if changes needed through applying a memorandum....