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| - | ====== Initial Public Offering Definition ====== | + | ====== What is an Initial Public Offering? ====== |
| **An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the first public stock offer of a corporation**. Non public corporations can have only a few owners. When a corporation "opens" it's capital, their stocks are traded in the [[en:capital-market|capital market]]. After the IPO, the stocks are traded in the [[en:secondary-market|secondary market]] and anyone can boy them. A stock represents a small fraction of the capital of a corporation. | **An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the first public stock offer of a corporation**. Non public corporations can have only a few owners. When a corporation "opens" it's capital, their stocks are traded in the [[en:capital-market|capital market]]. After the IPO, the stocks are traded in the [[en:secondary-market|secondary market]] and anyone can boy them. A stock represents a small fraction of the capital of a corporation. | ||