1. IPO Pricing The Eyetech IPO was underpriced by about 54 percent. Should Eyetech be upset at...
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1. IPO Pricing The Eyetech IPO was underpriced by about 54 percent. Should Eyetech be upset at Merrill Lynch over the underpricing?
2. IPO Pricing In the previous question, would it affect your thinking to know that the company was incorporated less than four years earlier, had only $30 million in revenues for the first nine months of 2003, and had never earned a profit? Additionally, the company had only one product, Macugen, which had won fast-track status from the FDA, but still did not have approval to be sold.
3. IPO Pricing In the previous two questions, how would it affect your thinking to know that in addition to the 6.5 million shares offered in the IPO, Eyetech had an additional 32 million shares outstanding? Of those 32 million shares, 10 million shares were owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and 12 million shares were owned by the 13 directors and executive officers.
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Corporate Finance Core Principles and Applications
ISBN: 978-0077905200
3rd edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford