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Revisiting the IPO Boom

Motley Fool Money

Why Do Companies Go From Being Private to Public?

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The idea of being able to get big returns by buying into some of these high flying start ups certainly existed for a lot of people. The downside of having your stock go up that much is that investor expectations for what you're about to do grow with those share prices. So many cases, the expectation simply became way too far ahead of what compodies could actually deliver. There there were a lot of macro factors beginning to swirl that created uncertainty in the public markets. And all those things make it harder to forecast businesses that are already very difficult to forecast cas they are so early on their development.

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