TY - JOUR A1 - Schosser, Josef A1 - Ströbele, Heiko T1 - What is the value of Facebook? T2 - Journal of risk finance N2 - On May 17, 2012, the social networking company Facebook Inc. fixes its initial public offering (IPO) price at $38.00 a share. Over the next couple of months, contrary to expectations raised by previous IPOs, the stock price crashes more than 50 per cent. Immediately, the question arises whether the issuer’s or the stock market’s pricing of the share are in line with the firm’s fundamentals. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to determine the company value in close proximity to the date of IPO. KW - Facebook KW - Firm valuation KW - Growth company KW - Initial public offering KW - Real options KW - Schwartz KW - Moon model KW - G32 Y1 - 2019 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48488 SN - 1526-5943 SN - 2331-2947 VL - 20 IS - 3 SP - 267 EP - 290 PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited CY - Bingley ER -