10 biggest ipos of all time

ALIBABA
A diversified online ecommerce company based in china
has the biggest IPO of all time. Alibaba is a Chinese
equivalent of EBay, amazon, and PayPal all round into
one. The Chinese ecommerce company initially priced its
shares at $68 apiece to raise $21.8 billion. The banks
released their overallotment option when the shares
opened 36.3% higher than their offering price, making
Alibabas final IPO total worth $25 billion. That makes
worlds biggest offer ever.

VISA
The world largest payment card network, launched its IPO
during the height of financial crisis in March of 2008 and
in also in the midst of the worst offering market since
2001. Visa priced its shares above the expected range at
$44 each, raising $17.9 billion. This made it the largest
US IPO at that time. Its stocks have been double since its
debut.

ENEL
It is an Italian power company, which jumped into public
market after the Italian government liberalized the power

industry. The company sold 30 percent of its stock at 4.3

euros a share to raise a total of $165 billion. When it
started trading it become the world largest publicly
traded electricity utility. It was delisted in 2007 due to low
trading volumes and is now trades in Milan.

FACEBOOK
Facebook raised 16 billion, which valued the social media
powerhouse at 107 times trailing 12 months earning.
Those who have stuck with the companys stock since its
IPO have gained 105 percent.

GENERAL MOTORS
They have its headquarters in Detroit, raised $15.8 billion
in its IPO in Nov 2010. At that time it was the biggest IPO
in US history, with first day return 3.6 percent and first
year return 34 percent. General motors stock has had a
wild ride since its debut, especially given the automakers
recent high level of recalls.

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM
Deutsche is the Germanys largest phone company,
raised $13 billion when it went public in the US market in
1996. It is the oldest IPO to make the list. The company
delisted from the NYSE in 2010 after saying that they

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AT&T WIRELESS GROUP

AT&T exists today in a form much different form than the
AT&T wireless group that went public in 2000 to tune of
10.6 billion. After that it was a wireless subsidiary of AT&T
crop, which eventually transformed into Cingular wireless
before wrapping back to its iconic telecom parent
company. The company dubbed the companys latest
iteration the new AT&T in 2005. The version of the
company still exists today and trades under its historic
symbol T.

KRAFT FOODS
In 2001 Phillip Morris, a company best known for
producing cigarettes, owed Kraft along with other brands
in its food portfolio. They sold off the portion of the
company to the public but retained an 81 percent
controlling shares in the firm until 2007; under a new
name Altria they sold the remaining shares. In 2001 the
IPO still brought in $8.7 billion for Kraft, which is big bank
for a company that first made its fortune manufacturing
artificial cheese products.

FRANCE TELECOM
It is the largest telecommunication company in its
domestic market. In 1997 the French government decided
that it wanted a piece of that sweet IPO money, and to
that end decided to take the corporation public. The IPO
raised $7.8 billion in capital that time.

TELSTRA
It is the largest telecommunication company with
revenues regularly in billion. In 1997 during its first IPO
the company raised $5.6 billion, and a large portion of the
stock.