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follow-on offering

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A quick definition of follow-on offering:

Follow-on offering: A follow-on offering is when a company sells more shares to the public after they have already gone public through an initial public offering (IPO). This is usually done because the company needs more money. Sometimes, existing shareholders may also sell their shares to the public. This can make the shares worth less because there are more of them. But if the company is just selling shares it already has, then it doesn't make the shares worth less.

A more thorough explanation:

A follow-on offering is a type of public offering that occurs after a company has already gone public through an initial public offering (IPO). This type of offering is also known as a "follow-on public offer" or "FPO." Companies usually conduct follow-on offerings when they need additional capital beyond what they raised in their IPO.

Follow-on offerings can be conducted as shelf offerings, which means that the company has already registered the securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and can sell them to the public at any time. Alternatively, follow-on offerings can occur as secondary offerings if existing shareholders want to sell their shares to the public.

There are two types of follow-on offerings: dilutive and non-dilutive. A dilutive offering increases the number of shares outstanding, which means that each share is entitled to a lower relative portion of the company's earnings. On the other hand, a non-dilutive offering does not increase the number of shares outstanding.

One example of a follow-on offering is when a company goes public through an IPO and then conducts a follow-on offering to raise additional capital for expansion or to pay off debt. For instance, in 2019, Uber went public through an IPO and then conducted a follow-on offering to raise $8.1 billion in capital.

Another example of a follow-on offering is when existing shareholders want to sell their shares to the public. For example, in 2020, Tesla conducted a secondary offering where existing shareholders sold their shares to the public, raising $2.3 billion.

These examples illustrate how follow-on offerings can help companies raise additional capital beyond what they raised in their IPO. They also show how follow-on offerings can be conducted as either dilutive or non-dilutive offerings.

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im okay with being called basic for that one
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im gatekeeping my current book
Dkk
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@2big2fail: looks like an Aristotle wannabe.
2big2fail
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whatever. im just reading the financial times
1a2b3c4d26z
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ft goated
concorde
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I hate Dostoevsky
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@1a2b3c4d26z: serotonin is my fave houellebecq
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19:45
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2big2fail
19:45
i honestly dont understand why people like houellebecq
1a2b3c4d26z
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I'll try to describe how I feel about him
2big2fail
19:46
my favorite french authors are balzac and proust, as basic as that is
1a2b3c4d26z
19:46
basically I read his book and the whole time I read it I liked it so I finished it and I said hm I liked that book written by the author houellebecq
1a2b3c4d26z
19:46
balzac hahaha
2big2fail
19:46
lost illusions is goated
does it take longer to hear back if u applied to scholarships for schools like ucla???
Dkk
19:47
For Houellebecq I have only read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomised
JumpySubsequentDolphin
19:47
you guys should read averroes
also do we think ucla wont do a wave tmw cuz they did a tiny one tonight, can schools do 2 days ina. row
JumpySubsequentDolphin
19:47
perhaps read the incoherence of philosophy first and then read averroes’ response: “the incoherence of the incoherence”
2big2fail
19:47
@Dkk: i read that one. just thought it was boring and not really in touch with reality
JumpySubsequentDolphin
19:47
SPLITTY usually they’re Friday!
Dkk
19:48
@2big2fail: I agree.
HUH then what the heck is this wave tonight ab are they tryna give us an attack???
babycat
19:49
@texaslawhopefully: don’t really remember it but my ibooks library says i read it in 2020. that whole year is a haze.
Dkk
19:51
My favorite book though, The Good Morty: https://archive.org/details/TheGoodMorty
Dkk
20:09
Man, I guess nobody like The Good Morty
2big2fail
20:10
didnt even look at it
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