CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg poses Facebook shares worth approximately 2.3 billion dollars on the market. The billionaire sold 41.4 million shares as part of an emission, which comprises a total of 70 million ordinary shares, as the online network on Thursday at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, California, announced. The price dropped in the wake on Thursday premarket by almost four percent.
The time is right: the world’s largest social network had gone last year for $ 16 billion on the stock market. After the Facebook papers were initially plummeted after the start, they have experienced in recent months, a steep upward trend.
Finally, the securities listed in the regular trading at $ 55.57, and thus close to the all-time highs. The issue price of the IPO in May last year was 38 dollars.
Social Network Facebook:The money needs Mark Zuckerberg for overdue tax payments
Mark Zuckerberg will offer its shares at substantially therefore to pay taxes due from another stock deal. Zuckerberg loses bottom line hardly influence. It controls 62.8 percent of the voting rights by 65.2 percent previously.
At the same time sold the investor Marc Andreessen over 1.6 million of its shares. Facebook itself has in a capital increase of 27 million shares. Overall, get 70 million new shares to the market. After the capital, there are a total of 2.54 billion Facebook shares, of which nearly 1.94 billion are traded on the stock exchange.
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