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Boston Capital | Steven Syre

Measuring the value of Facebook’s stock

By Steven Syre

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 03, 2012

What kind of an investment will Facebook Inc. shares become? Facebook’s paperwork for an initial public stock offering spelled out a lot of the financial details of the company’s social media business. Investors now have a pretty good idea what they would be buying and that’s half the battle. The other half is all about price and that remains an unknown. The eventual number of shares for sale and price of a stock are both subject to negotiation in an IPO process.

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