Candy Crush maker plans IPO - $KING Monitor #candycrush #IPO Candy Crush Saga maker King files for IPO

Candy Crush maker plans IPO -The company that brought the world the addictive puzzle game Candy Crush Saga is hoping that investors will line up for a piece of its stock as well.

King Digital Entertainment, which has headquarters in Dublin but has offices across Europe and in San Francisco, filed on Tuesday for an initial public offering in the United States. But prospective investors may be wary that players may be tiring of paying to line up shiny virtual pieces of sugar
Christian Science Monitor .Candy Crush Saga maker King files for IPO. The company will trade under the "KING" ticker when it goes public on the New York Stock

Is Twitter $1 billion IPO ? #TWTR InvestorsTwitter IPO why did They BuyThe Wrong Stock ?

$1 billion IPO
Twitter said it aims to raise $1 billion through the initial public offering. However, that figure could very well change.
Here are some accumulated statistics from our scouring of the Twitter IPO filing for your perusal. The overall numbers show a company
Companies are required to declare how much they plan to raise, though they are by no means required to stick with those numbers. Facebook (FB +3.78%), for instance, initially said it sought $5 billion, but wound up pulling in $16 billion. Twitter has been valued at upwards of $10 billion.




Negative profits
Twitter's revenue has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2012, revenue leapt an incredible 198 percent from the year before, coming in at a hair under $317 million. Before going public, the company must first wait through a three-week quiet period. After a “road show” that markets shares, Twitter and its underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs, will set a price for them. Twitter stock won’t be available to the public, then, until November.

Twitter had reportedly been planning to raise $1.5 billion with an offering of 50 million to 55 million shares priced at $28 to $30 each. Its 2013 revenue had been estimated at $545 million by eMarketer, set to rise to $807 million in 2014.

Twitter said more than 65 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. Because mobile advertising revenue is growing much more quickly than desktop advertising revenue in developed markets like the U.S., some believe Twitter has as a significant advantage over rivals like Facebook, which gleaned just 41 percent of ad revenue from mobile in its most recent quarter.

Twitter’s IPO filing marks its first release of revenue and profit figures, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the company’s financial health and growth prospects.

And the company reported earning $253 million in the first half of 2013, putting it on pace for another record year.



However, as is often the case with tech startups, it's actually losing money due to ballooning expenses. The company lost $79.4 million last year, and is already $69.3 million in the hole this year. All told, Twitter has rung up a $418.6 million deficit since its inception.




Powerful underwriters
Twitter's massive losses, though, won't scare away investors who are focused on the service's popularity. Financial titan Goldman Sachs is the lead underwriter, according to the filing. It's joined by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Allen & Co., and Code Advisors.




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There were 218.3 million monthly active users on Twitter as of June 30, up 44 percent from the prior year, according to the filing.




However, Twitter acknowledged that it could not sustain such rapid growth going forward. With U.S. growth already slowing down, the company said it would look overseas, specifically to Argentina, France, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, to expand its user base.

And Twitter warned that it would have to find ways to stay "useful, reliable, and trustworthy" or it would risk going down the same road as once-popular companies that have turned into morbid jokes.When you buy a stock on an IPO,It's like everyone who watches those gold stock commercials and all the talk radio announcers who pump this stuff out. You know it will go up for awhile then dramatically drop. I believe a 30% drop this year alone. Don't follow everyone and what they do like this, you are buying overinflated stock.. I also believe we will have another major market crash this decade. The price is awfully high and everyone is buying, the rich will get out at the right time wait for it to crash then buy it back up on the cheap. the early investors already got in at a far far far cheaper price then you and when you follow the crowd and buy stuff like this without checking their true revenue model, you will end up losing bigtime in the end. Facebook is the perfect example.


Wall Street, where investors were so anxious about the social media company, which disclosed its initial public offering filing on Thursday, that they funneled money into the wrong company. That's right, the consumer electronics company Tweeter Home Entertainment Group saw its stock price rise 684 percent on Friday, according to MarketWatch.



In short, "if people get bored and drift off, the company will have problems," says The Wall Street Journal's Paul Vigna.
We don't know for sure why Tweeter's stock skyrocketed. But considering the company filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and went out of business in 2008, according to CNNMoney, we're guessing it has something to do with Tweeter's ticker symbol, TWTRQ, which is only one letter off from Twitter's future ticker, TWTR



Reliance on ad dollars , Twitter is looking to raise $1 billion from outside investors. The company generated $317 million in revenue last year.In making public its prospectus, Twitter sets the clock on one of the most anticipated stock sales of the year and shows how important mobile
Almost all of Twitter's revenue comes from advertisements. According to the filing, 85 percent of all revenue last year, and 87 percent through June of this year, came from ads.




Further, "substantially all" of that ad money came from promoted tweets, accounts, and trends. Though you may glaze over #GoSeeThisCoolNewMovie when it pops up as a trending topic, Twitter banks a ton of money by boosting it to prominence.

First Chinese IPO of 2013 surges 20% $LITB

Shares of Beijing-based Internet retailer LightInTheBox (LITB) surged 22% above their initial public offering price of $9.50. The two companies that went public last year, online retailer Vipshop Holdings (VIPS) and social media firm YY Inc. (YY), have been welcomed by U.S. investors. Shares of Vipshop have gained 340% from their IPO price, while YY is up 150%. "Chinese IPOs in 2012 have done very well, and there are a few more Chinese companies that want to list on the U.S. exchanges," said Scott Sweet, senior managing partner at research firm IPO Boutique. "I would envision more companies to go public in 2013."

#WDAY IPO stock today ( Workday ) Buy or Sell ?The IPO for Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY) opened at $48.05 after pricing 22,750,000 shares at $28, above the expected $24-$26 range

The IPO for Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY) opened at $48.05 after pricing 22,750,000 shares at $28, above the expected $24-$26 range
 Workday Inc. (WDAY) has just begun trading for the first time Friday morning. The company priced its initial public offering of 22.75 million
Workday Inc. (WDAY), a maker of Web-based human-resources programs, raised $637 million in its initial public offering, pricing the shares


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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) late Friday scrambled to address frustration among brokers and traders, who sought clarity on whether some trades in the newly issued shares of Facebook Inc. (FB) had gone through.
However, a late-day process meant to resolve the matter was seen drawing limited participation from brokers who were impacted by the trading issues, and Nasdaq OMX told traders in a later notice that the effort "resulted in nothing done."
Stock market regulators, meanwhile, planned to review Nasdaq OMX's handling of the Facebook initial public offering, in what a Securities and Exchange Commission spokesman said was in line with standard practices.
The glitches that dogged the Facebook offering marred the biggest IPO on record in terms of valuation at the time of the offering, and one that was hotly anticipated by both retail and institutional investors.
Facebook's debut was also to be a point of pride for Nasdaq OMX, burnishing the exchange's reputation as the venue of choice for a new breed of Internet companies.
Technical problems with the Facebook flotation, however, cropped up ahead of the shares' opening for live trading Friday, as brokers and investors found themselves unable to cancel or alter trades that began to be placed for the shares earlier in the morning.
Nasdaq OMX delayed the Facebook IPO's open for 30 minutes before the stock eventually began to trade at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Shares in the social media heavyweight, priced at $38 in the IPO, jumped to $45 before easing back to close at $38.23.
Representatives for Nasdaq OMX didn't respond to requests for comment.
Brokers on Friday afternoon were focused on orders for Facebook shares placed after the IPO was delayed at 11:05 a.m. but before the 11:30 a.m. open, some of which were later returned without being filled.
Some brokerage officials said they felt their customers, including institutional investors, were owed fills on those orders, because Nasdaq OMX acknowledged the orders before Facebook shares opened for trading and never told customers that orders sent after the delay wouldn't be honored.
Nasdaq OMX officials told traders in a notice late Friday afternoon that the exchange would resolve the matter through an "offline matching process" for which affected firms needed to sign up.
"If at the end of that process, a firm continues to have questions or concerns, the firm needs to submit a formal accommodation request to us through the normal channels," exchange officials wrote in the notice.
That process, Nasdaq OMX officials told traders in a later notice, "resulted in nothing done." Customers were reminded that "accommodation" requests must be turned in in writing by noon on Monday, May 21.
A spokesman for the SEC said "as is our practice, staff will review the incident with Nasdaq to determine its cause and steps that will be taken to address it."
Meanwhile retail traders and other investors remained in the dark for hours as to the status of orders placed earlier in the day, left without confirmation after making changes to the price or size of standing trades, or trying to withdraw them altogether.
"I've had headaches [trading], but never this bad," said Joseph Cohn, a website software developer based in Suffern, N.Y.
Cohn, who said he maintains a retail investment account through Fidelity Investments, placed two orders for Facebook shares Friday and later canceled them both, but hours later remained unsure whether the orders had been filled or not.
Cohn said he waited on hold for 35 minutes with Fidelity before a representative told him that the problem was Nasdaq's responsibility. "This is ridiculous," he said.
Fidelity alerted clients to what it called "FB order execution slowness."
"Marketplaces and other broker/dealers experienced severe slowness this morning, and unfortunately, those issues impacted our customers," said Stephen Austin, a spokesman for Fidelity, in a statement. "But Fidelity's systems operated normally. We continue to work closely with the marketplaces to ensure that impacted orders for Facebook are resolved as soon as possible."
Mark Turner, co-head of sales trading at electronic brokerage Instinet, said he could not recall such a hiccup striking previous IPOs, and called it a "black eye" for Nasdaq OMX.
Nasdaq OMX had conducted multiple tests of its IPO systems over the past week and took the unusual step of holding a two-hour, market-wide conference call around the time of the Facebook flotation Friday.
The exchange group's chief executive Bob Greifeld, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview early Friday that Nasdaq had "changed system capabilities based on the expected flow of orders" for Facebook shares in its IPO, and that Nadsaq OMX has been double-checking systems for weeks.
Nasdaq OMX's own share price suffered as the delay in rolling out Facebook's stock dragged on, and traders waited to get confirmations of their business in the stock.
The exchange group's stock closed 4.4% lower at $21.99, while other U.S. exchange stocks ended the day higher.

-By Jacob B.

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Dunkin' Donuts' parent company announces IPO (Nasdaq - DNKN ) price range $16 - $18 a share

--22.25 million shares to be sold at $16 to $18




--no date set yet for initial trading Dunkin Donuts 3 Pack Holiday Sampler Coffee Gift



--proceeds to repay debt, for working capital



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Doughnut chain Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. came one step closer to throwing open its doors to a public offering Monday, setting the price terms for its deal.



The company wants to sell 22.25 million shares at a price between $16 and $18, for a raise of $400 million. It plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol DNKN.



Though most IPOs immediately launch a marketing road show and begin trading about two weeks after they have filed their terms, people close to the deal say the road show hasn't launched and the date of trading hasn't been fixed yet.



Dunkin Brands franchises quick-service restaurants that serve coffee and baked goods under its Dunkin' Donuts brand as well as Baskin-Robbins ice cream.



In 2006, the Massachusetts-based company was purchased from liquor company Pernod Ricard S.A. for $2.4 billion in cash by a trio of private-equity firms: Bain Capital Partners LLC, The Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners. It's the latest private-equity-backed offering to arrange to go public in the U.S. this year.



Earlier this year, private-equity-backed hospitals operator HCA Inc. (HCA) and energy company Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) completed successful IPOs of more than $1 billion each. While the offering from Dunkin' Brands isn't as big as either of those deals, the company's brand recognition is quite high among investors; both Dunkin' Donuts and the Baskin-Robbins brands date back to the 1940s.



In fiscal 2010, which ended Dec. 25, the company's total revenue rose 7% to $577 million compared to fiscal 2009, primarily on higher systemwide sales from Dunkin' Donuts. Operating income increased 5% to $194 million. Net income decreased 23% to $27 million for fiscal 2010 due to a $62 million pretax loss on debt extinguishment. Same-store sales rose 2.3% at Dunkin' Donuts and declined 5.2% at Baskin-Robbins.

plans to raise as much as $461 million when it takes the company public, up from the $400 million it originally estimated.






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Bags of coffee sit on the shelves at a Dunkin' Donuts store in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 14, 2010.

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Dunkin' Brands, which runs Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, disclosed the estimated pricing in a regulatory filing on Monday. It didn't say when the stock might start trading.



The company's current owners, a coterie of three well-known private equity firms, will continue to play a powerful role at the company even after it goes public. Together, Bain Capital, Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners will own as much as 78% of the public Dunkin' Brands, which will make it nearly impossible for any dissident shareholders to effect substantial changes. The three firms control six of the nine seats on the board of directors.



Dunkin' Brands said it plans to use the money to pay down its substantial debt load, although it could also be hoping to have money left over for expansion plans. The Massachusetts-based company wants to grow outside its U.S. stronghold, the Northeast. It also is expanding internationally, with South Korea and the Middle East currently on its radar. The company says it has no plans to pay shareholder dividends "for the foreseeable future."



Dunkin' Brands' transition into a public company — it first announced its intentions in May — has also led it to pull back the curtain on its operations for potential shareholders. Its regulatory filing noted that CEO Nigel Travis made $5.5 million in 2010, mostly from $4 million in option awards.



The company said it will offer approximately 22.3 million shares on the open market, and it expects investors to pay $16 to $18 per share. The company will also give its underwriters a 30-day window to purchase another 3.3 million shares.



If all shares are bought at $18 each, the company would raise about $461 million before expenses.



However, the company said it expects to make about $348 million, after deducting underwriting expenses. That assumes that shares prices at the $17 midpoint and that the underwriters do not purchase additional shares.



Dunkin' Brands plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol DNKN



Dunkin Brands plans to use the proceeds to repay debt and for working capital and general corporate purposes, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.



Joint bookrunners on Dunkin' Donuts offering are J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Barclays PLC's (BCS, BARC.LN) Barclays Capital Inc., Morgan Stanley (MS), Bank of America Corp.'s (BAC) Bank