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Anyone who saw Shrek 2 and wondered how to cash in on the ogre's box-office charm will soon have a chance. DreamWorks SKG, the studio behind the billion-dollar Shrek franchise, announced that it plans to spin off its animation division in an initial public offering (IPO) to raise at least $650 million. DreamWorks Animation, as the new company will be called, intends to ramp up production with the release of two computer-animated films a year and needs the capital to help finance the movies and tackle archrival Pixar, which keeps raising the bar with hits like...
Searching For Billions For the past six months, Silicon Valley has been buzzing with the prospect of tech's first blockbuster public offering since the dotcom crash: search engine juggernaut Google's IPO is expected in a couple of weeks. But Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem determined to spoil the party. Last week the company gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 per share, or more than 150 times annual profit per share. Historically, most large companies average about one-seventh of that. Google watchers were split on the reason...
...form the world's largest gaming company--until last week, when Harrah's Entertainment agreed to buy Caesars Entertainment in a $9.25 billion deal (including cash, stock and debt) that would create an even bigger company. Sheldon Adelson, the 70-year-old owner of the Venetian, is contemplating an IPO to score some cash to make a bigger bet on a new Strip hotel, the Palazzo, and other properties in the U.S. and overseas. In April, Steve Wynn, 62, the man who brought renewed glamour to Vegas in the 1990s with the shimmering-sided Mirage and then the Continental swank...
...form the world's largest gaming company - until two weeks ago, when Harrah's Entertainment agreed to buy Caesars Entertainment in a $9.25 billion deal (including cash, stock and debt) that would create an even bigger company. Sheldon Adelson, 70, the owner of the Venetian, is contemplating an ipo to score cash to make a bigger bet on a new Strip hotel, the Palazzo, and other properties in the U.S. and overseas. In April, Steve Wynn, 62, who brought renewed glamour to Vegas in the '90s with the shimmering-sided Mirage and the Bellagio's Continental swank, will open...
With five companies and $100 million in sales, Ledecky tried to secure financial backers to take the company public with a so-called “poof” Initial Public Offering, or IPO. But again, he faced rejection: the first 40 firms said no. When the 41st firm, Mabon Securities, finally agreed to back the company, Ledecky went to Fidelity Investments for financing...