Facebook IPO

[J. Spence Financial]

So what does everyone think about this? Are you in? Gonna get in? Will it spike in day one like LinkedIn did?

[J. Spence Financial]

A secondary question about this. How does an individual get in on this IPO before trading begins? Is there a minimum investment and who do you speak with about getting in on this?

[Mr Nice Guy]

ITs not really in my investing mission statement to invest in IPO's or new stocks, so no.

But Facebook can obviously put up numbers and it's not going anywhere, so I can't really imagine it's shares losing principal from day 1 but who knows.

It will be fun to watch I know that.

[jpg7n16]

A secondary question about this. How does an individual get in on this IPO before trading begins? Is there a minimum investment and who do you speak with about getting in on this?

You need to speak to your brokerage firm about the qualifications to participate (and even then, you likely won't get much of an allocation if anything).

[jteezie]

Talk to your brokerage firm. Look through the brokerage website, there's likely some option to be notified in advance of IPO's. However, fb is likely way over subscribed by this point so you've probably missed the boat.

I'd be cautious of something so hyped. Also this tech bubble isn't the same as the last one. This time around, the companies that went IPO already had many many levels of investors who have essentially squeezed out all the upside potential that was characteristic of the last wave of tech IPOs. So don't count on the stock shooting up 100% in a year. There's plenty of other arguments against all the hype. I'd do more research if you're truly interested. It's too easy to get caught in the world with all the hype. Another thing to keep in mind is that stock price does not have to move in the same direction as revenue so even if fb grows, the stock can still drop if it was overvalued initially (i.e. when its hyped up).

[bjl584]

History of IPO's are a 90% chance the initial public offering price will drop and you will be able to pick up the stock cheaper a few months down the road.

[kv968]

A secondary question about this. How does an individual get in on this IPO before trading begins? Is there a minimum investment and who do you speak with about getting in on this?

Your best chance of getting in before it trades is to have about $10 mil in a brokerage account, be friends with Buffett and/or have Rockefeller somewhere in your name

[feh]

Here's one person's view on it:

Facebook is great. But $100 billion great?-- The Buzz - Feb. 2, 2012