Published On: Wed, Feb 1st, 2012

Facebook IPO: Still Small Investors May Have Chance To Get Shares

For small investors, Facebook may take some steps to make some portion of its IPO shares. Let’s see what they will be able to give, hottest deals or ….

Facebook IPOFacebook may make some portion available of its IPO shares to small investors. This could be partially as a public relations gesture, it could develop goodwill.

President of IPOfinancial.com, a research firm in Millburn, N.J. David Menlow, said “I guess there will be somewhat of an altruistic tone to the structure of the deal. It’s important for people who are Facebook users to at least have a priority in getting shares.”

When the firm files with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO, investors hope to get answer of their many questions like who gets shares. It could take some time may it take place in the spring.

The company is expected to complete and file paperwork as soon as possible, on Wednesday. Facebook may sell $10 billion shares in a deal that would value the firm around $100 billion. Also this would be fourth largest U.S. IPO of all time, according to research firm Renaissance Capital.

Facebook is expected to exceed 1 billion users later this year.

Sandeep Dahiya, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, “This is once in a decade, Facebook is probably going to be the deal for many years.”