Facebook expects to hit the Nasdaq for its first day of public trading on May 18. Its IPO will be the largest social-media public offering ever, as well as one of the largest IPOs in the past few years.
And yet, investors’ feelings have been somewhat mixed. Among things cooling the fire have been Facebook’s uninspiring first-quarter earnings report, as well as the struggles of other recent social IPOs like Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN), Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) and Pandora (NYSE:P).
Well, investors aren’t alone on their indecision. To get a different perspective on the Facebook offering, I talked to five tech-sector CEOs — only to find that their opinions run the gamut, too.
Here’s what they had to say:
A long-time follower of the IPO scene, back in 1999 Tom started one of the first sites in the space called WebIPO. It was a place where investors got research as well as access to deals for the dot-com boom. Tom also wrote the top-selling book, Investing in IPOs. In it, he covers all the aspects of analyzing an IPO, such as reading the prospectus, detecting the risk factors and understanding some of the arcane regulations. But don’t worry — if that process is too intimidating for you, thankfully Tom will do the legwork for you right here in the IPO Playbook blog.
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