Dropping Dollars: Should You Invest in Tech IPOs?

DROPPING DOLLARS SHOULD YOU INVEST IN TECH IPO'S? BREAKOUT OF IPO'S On average, tech IPO's since the beginning of last year are up 5%. Just the social element of RELEASED IN 2012 tech is not fairing well. If you remove this social element, tech average jumps to 25%!" TELECOMMUNICATIONS 63.90% • INDUSTRIAL 38.62% • CONSUMER GOODS 33.04% • HEALTH CARE 30.71% • TECHNOLOGY 29.83% • FINANCIAL 20.56% • CONSUMER GOODS ST ALTH CARE INDUSTRIAL OIL & GAS 14.62% • BASIC MATERIALS -0.88% • TOP RETURN BIGGEST LOSS 3rd WORST LOSS 153.62% -79.00% -46.13% Guideware Software Envivlo Facebook See how each years biggest Tech IPOS faired in their first trading days. Would the day traders have won big or lost big? STOCK PERFORMANCE 15 TRADING DAYS DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 SOURCEFIRE +2.43% RACKSPACE HOSTING +4.10% ORBITZ -15.24% CARDIONET +3.95% VMWARE +18.63% VISAI +22.12% DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 DAY 5 DAY 10 DAY 15 ROSETTA STONE SMART TECHNOLOGIES -4.10% OPENTABLE SS8C TECHNOLOGY +11.27% 4.67% DIGITALGLOBE 16.14% REACHLOCAL +0.67% DAY 10 DAY 10 DAY 15 GROUPON +0.31% SHUTTERSTOCK +7.16% ZYNGA -0.95% FACEBOOK -29.64% LINKEDIN -6.47% TODAY'S VALUE IF If investing $100 into the company at the IPO, you would have the following amounts. $100 IS INVESTED $37,941.92 1986 Microsoft $7,427.35 1998 eBay $18,828.92 1997 Amazon $1,889.73 1996 Yahoo! $788.72 2004 Google -O $45.06 2012 Shutterstock $174.35 2011 Linkedln $17.13 2012 Facebook -$75.20 -$73.65 2011 Zynga 2011 Groupon CAPITAL RAISED BY The following tech companies raised the most money by selling shares of their company stock to the public. IPO 1980-2012 Facebook 16 Billion Zynga 1 Billion Groupon 700 Million Google 670 Million Linkedin 353 Million Shutterstock 76.5 Million eBay O 63 Million Microsoft I 59 Million Amazon I 54 Million Yahoo! | 34 Million Maxwen Sources: Yahoo Finance | Reuters | Wall Street Journal | Bloomberg BYETEME 2012 2010 2011 8007 6007 2007 ECHNOLOGY FIN OIL AND GAS BASIC MATERIALS TELECOM SNOILVI