Verdienst war 2,9 Milliarden-Aktienwert derzeit 221 Milliarden ....
IPOs do one thing very well, and that is to make the pre-IPO investors rich.
IPOs are a way for companies to raise capital. But they are also a way for founders and other investors to cash in on their initial investments by unloading their shares to the unsuspecting public. They are also an investment bank's bread and butter, so they will do everything in their power to ensure that the IPO is successful and that there is a lot of interest around them. Ben Graham has warned to never invest in an IPO for these very reasons, but it seems that investors can get swept up in the mania and become speculators when a hot IPO is set, only to regret it later on. I guess IPOs are the hangovers of investments and will only leave you with a headache.
Now, let's look at Alibaba (BABA) just to hammer these points home. This company has garnered so much media attention, which has only resulted in a ridiculous price for this company. I'm not saying the company is terrible. I've used their service in the past and have no qualms about BABA. But the way investors drool over the company and present the information about the company to the public is misleading in the best case scenario. The information is so misleading that I've had people, who don't have a lot of experience investing, ask me if they should invest in BABA. The short answer: NOOOO!!!
First, we need to clarify how BABA makes money. It does not create any products. It does NOT carry inventory like Amazon. It is an ecommerce platform providing a service for sellers to sell products. BABA did NOT generate or sell $240 billion worth of products. The platform SUPPORTED $240 billion sales transactions that the sellers on the platform generated. BABA actually generated $6.9 billion in revenue and had net income of $2.9 billion....
No one was really able to get the stock at $68, and if you're a regular "investor" like me, you would have never been able to get the stock for $68. But it was a big payday for the founder Jack Ma and anyone else who invested when the company was still privately held. Now we really need to ask ourselves, is a company that only generated a net income of $2.9 billion worth $221 billion? Is a company with no dividends and priced around 30 times its book value worth spending $90 per share?
seekingalpha.com/article/2602765-drooling-on-baba