Facebook on the Stock Market by Spring 2012

Facebook is now ready to take the big step, the one that external observers of the hi-tech world but also the financial world have been waiting for a long time: the entry into the Stock Market.
After rumors and hypotheses that have followed one another over the past year, it is now the Wall Street Journal coming forward to announce that the social network will be listed during the spring of 2012, most likely between May and June.
If until today Mark Zuckerberg tried to postpone this important action, it is also true that we have reached a critical point, especially because investors have grown significantly and with them the business revolving around Facebook: it is therefore time to make the financial statements public, according to regulations.
A move therefore that, in these terms, appears more forced than actually desired by the social network’s management.
According to estimates by the Wall Street Journal the IPO (Initial Public Offering) could easily raise at least 10 billion dollars, thus allowing Facebook to reach the remarkable capitalization value of 100 billion.
Very significant numbers that accompany the estimate of the closing of the financial statement for 2011: which is said to be 4 billion dollars.
This would be a record even higher than that reached in the good times of Yahoo!.
If all these estimates were confirmed in reality, Facebook could “boast” a new milestone: it would become the most important IPO in the history of the Stock Market, concerning the technology companies sector.
Provided it does not end like Groupon, triumphantly entered the Stock Market on November 4th and then hardly rewarded by the markets in the following weeks.
It is worth remembering that these are hypotheses and anticipations provided by the Wall Street Journal which, although referring to sources very close to the company and those following the issue, remain nonetheless only unconfirmed rumors.
By the end of the year more will certainly be known, since if Facebook were really about to enter the Stock Market, it should submit a specific application to the competent authorities precisely by the end of December 2011.