raising equity capital

Raising Equity Capital

Chapter 14

Chapter 14 Outline14.1 Equity Financing for Private

Companies14.2 Taking Your Firm Public: The Initial

Public Offering14.3 IPO Puzzles14.4 Raising Additional Capital: The

Seasoned Equity Offering

Learning Objectives Contrast the different ways to raise

equity capital for a private company Understand the process of taking a

company public Gain insight into puzzles associated with

initial public offerings Explain how to raise additional equity

capital once the company is public

14.1 Equity Financing for Private Companies

Sources of Funding: A private company can seek funding from

several potential sources: Angel Investors Venture Capital Firms Institutional Investors Corporate Investors


Angel Investors: Individual investors who buy equity in small

private firms The first round of outside private equity

financing is often obtained from angels


Venture Capital Firms: Specialize in raising money to invest in the

private equity of young firms In return, venture capitalists often demand a

great deal of control of the company

Figure 14.1 Most Active U.S. Venture Capital Firms in 2009 (by Number of Deals Completed

Figure 14.2 Venture Capital Funding in the United States


Institutional Investors: Pension funds, insurance companies,

endowments, and foundations May invest directly May invest indirectly by becoming limited

partners in venture capital firms


Corporate Investors: Many established corporations purchase

equity in younger, private companies corporate strategic objectives desire for investment returns


Securities and Valuation When a company decides to sell equity to

outside investors for the first time, it is typical to issue preferred stock rather than common stock to raise capital It is called convertible preferred stock if the

owner can convert it into common stock at a future date

Example 14.1 Funding and Ownership

Problem: You founded your own firm two years ago. You initially

contributed $100,000 of your money and, in return received 1,500,000 shares of stock. Since then, you have sold an additional 500,000 shares to angel investors. You are now considering raising even more capital from a venture capitalist (VC).


Problem (cont’d): This VC would invest $6 million and would receive 3 million

newly issued shares. What is the post-money valuation? Assuming that this is the VC’s first investment in your company, what percentage of the firm will she end up owning? What percentage will you own? What is the value of your shares?


Solution:Plan: After this funding round, there will be a total of 5,000,000

shares outstanding:Your shares 1,500,000Angel investors’ shares 500,000Newly issued shares 3,000,000Total 5,000,000


Plan (cont’d): The VC is paying $6,000,000/3,000,000=$2/share. The post-money valuation will be the total number

of shares multiplied by the price paid by the VC. The percentage of the firm owned by the VC is her

shares divided by the total number of shares. Your percentage will be your shares divided by the

total shares and the value of your shares will be the number of shares you own multiplied by the price the VC paid.


Execute: There are 5,000,000 shares and the VC paid $2

per share. Therefore, the post-money valuation would be 5,000,000($2) = $10 million.

Because she is buying 3,000,000 shares, and there will be 5,000,000 total shares outstanding after the funding round, the VC will end up owning 3,000,000/5,000,000=60% of the firm.

You will own 1,500,000/5,000,000=30% of the firm, and the post-money valuation of your shares is 1,500,000($2) = $3,000,000.


Evaluate: Funding your firm with new equity capital, be it from an

angel or venture capitalist, involves a tradeoff—you must give-up part of the ownership of the firm in return for the money you need to grow.

The higher is the price you can negotiate per share, the smaller is the percentage of your firm you have to give up for a given amount of capital.


Exiting an Investment in a Private Company

Acquisition Public Offering

14.2 Taking Your Firm Public: The Initial Public Offering

The process of selling stock to the public for the first time is called an initial public offering (IPO)

Table 14.1 Largest Global Equity Issues, 2009


Advantages and Disadvantages of Going Public Advantages:

Greater liquidity Better access to capital By going public, companies given their private

equity investors the ability to diversify. In addition, public companies typically have access to much larger amounts of capital through the public markets, both in the initial public offering and in subsequent offerings.


Disadvantages: Equity holders more dispersed Must satisfy requirements of public companies When investors sell their stake and thereby

diversify their holdings, the equity holders of the corporation become more widely dispersed. Thus undermines investor’s ability to monitor the management and thus represents a loss of control. Furthermore, once a company goes public, it must satisfy all of the requirements of public companies. In general, these standards were designed to provide better protection for investors. However, compliance with the new standards is costly and time-consuming for public companies.


IPOs include both Primary and Secondary offerings At an IPO, a firm offers a large block of shares for sale to the

public for the first time. The share that are sold in the IPO may either by new shares that raise new capital, known as primary offering, or existing shares that are sold by current shareholders, known as a secondary offering.

Underwriters and the Syndicate After deciding to go public, managers of the company work

with an underwriter, an investment banking firm that manages the security issuance and design its structure. Underwriter: an investment banking firm that manages the

offering and designs its structure Lead Underwriter

Syndicate: other underwriters that help market and sell the issue

Table 14.2 International IPO Underwriter Ranking Report for 2007


Valuation Underwriters work with the company to come up with a

price Estimate the future cash flows and compute the present value Use market multiples approach

Road Show Once an initial price range is established, the underwriters

try to determine what the market thinks of the valuation. They begin by arranging a road show, in which senior management and the lead underwriters travel around the country promoting the company and explaining their rational for the offer price to the underwriter’s largest customers.


Valuation Book Building(詢價圈購 ) At the end of the road show, customers

inform the underwriters of their interest by telling the underwriters how many shares they may want to purchase. This process for coming up with the offer price based on customer’s expression of interest is called book building.


Pricing the Deal and Managing Risk Firm Commitment IPO: the underwriter

guarantees that it will sell all of the stock at the offer price

Over-allotment allocation, or Greenshoe provision: allows the underwriter to issue more stock, amounting to 15% of the original offer size, at the IPO offer price


Other IPO Types Best-Efforts Basis: the underwriter does not

guarantee that the stock will be sold, but instead tries to sell the stock for the best possible price

Auction IPO: The company or its investment bankers auction off the shares, allowing the market to determine the price of the stock

Table 14.4 Summary of IPO Methods

14.3 IPO Puzzles Four IPO puzzles:

Underpricing of IPOs On average, IPO appear to be underpriced: The price at the end of

trading on the first day is often substantially higher than the IPO price.

“Hot” and “Cold” IPO markets The number of IPOs is highly cyclical. When times are good, the

market is flooded with IPOs; when times are bad, the number of IPOs fries up.

High underwriting costs The transaction costs of the IPO are very high, and it is unclear

why firms willingly incur such high costs. Poor long-run performance of IPOs

The long-run performance of a newly public company( three to five years from the date of issue) is poor. That is, on average, a three- to five-year buy and hold strategy appears to be a bad investment.

14.3 IPO Puzzles Underpriced IPOs

On average, between 1960 and 2003, the price in the U.S. aftermarket was 18.3% higher at the end of the first day of trading

As id evident in Figure 14.5, the one-day average return for IPOs has historically been very large around the world. Note that although underpricing is a persistent and global phenomenon, it is generally smaller in more developed capital markets. Who wins and who loses because of underpricing? Investors vs pre-IPO shareholders

Figure 14.5 International Comparison of First-Day IPO Returns

14.3 IPO Puzzles “Hot” and “Cold” IPO Markets

It appears that the number of IPOs is not solely driven by the demand for capital.

Sometimes firms and investors seem to favor IPOs; at other times firms appear to rely on alternative sources of capital

14.3 IPO Puzzles “Hot” and “Cold” IPO Markets

Figure 14.6 shows the number of IPOs by year from 1980 to 2009. As the figure makes clear, the dollar volume of IPOs grew significantly in the early 1990s, reaching a peak in 1996. An even more important feature of the data is that the trends related to the number of issues are cyclical. Sometimes, as in 1996, the volume of IPOs is unprecedented by historical standards, yet within a year or two the volume of IPOs may decrease significantly. This cyclicality by itself is not particularly surprising. We would expect there to be a greater need for capital in times with more growth opportunities than in times with fewer growth opportunities.

Figure 14.6 Cyclicality of Initial Public Offerings in the United States, (1980-2009)

14.3 IPO Puzzles High Cost of Issuing an IPO

In the U.S., the discount below the issue price at which the underwriter purchases the shares from the issuing firm is 7% of the issue price.

This fee is large, especially considering the additional cost to the firm associated with underpricing.

Figure 14.7 Relative Costs of Issuing Securities

14.3 IPO Puzzles Poor Post-IPO Long-Run Stock

Performance Newly listed firms appear to perform

relatively poorly over the following three to five years after their IPOs

That underperformance might not result from the issue of equity itself, but rather from the conditions that motivated the equity issuance in the first place

14.4 Raising Additional Capital: The Seasoned Equity Offering

A firm’s need for outside capital rarely ends at the IPO Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO): firms return

to the equity markets and offer new shares for sale


SEO Process When a firm issues stock using an SEO, it

follows many of the same steps as for an IPO.

Main difference is that the price-setting process is not necessary. Tombstones Historically, underwriters would advertise the

sale of stock (both IPOs and SEOs) by taking out newspaper advertisements.

Figure 14.8 Tombstone Advertisement for a RealNetworks SEO


Two kinds of seasoned equity offerings: Cash offer the firm’s offers the new shares to investors

at large. Rights offer the firm’s offers the new shares only to

existing shareholders.


SEO Price Reaction Researchers have found that, on average,

the market greets the news of an SEO with a price decline (about 1.5%) Often the value lost can be a significant

fraction of the new money raised Adverse selection (the lemons problem)


SEO Costs In addition to the price drop when the SEO is

announced, the firm must pay direct costs as well. Underwriting fees amount to 5% of the proceeds of the issue

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