Sentences with phrase «companies the valuation of»

That gives the company a valuation of about $ 1.5 billion.

That gave the company a valuation of about $ 1.9 billion.

The price range gives the company a valuation of about $ 1 billion, down from the $ 2 billion rumored earlier.

One person familiar with the matter said that a group of investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic would be allowed to buy $ 1 billion to $ 1.25 billion of new Uber shares at a company valuation of $ 69 billion and 14 to 17 % of stock from current investors at a discounted valuation.

It said it expected to price its shares at around $ 13 to $ 14 a share, raising questions about whether the company would be valued at less than its private company valuation of nearly $ 2 billion.

Despite Square's rapid growth, which recently earned the company a valuation of $ 3.25 billion, there's not a single salesperson among its 500 employees.

GoDaddy priced its much - anticipated initial public offering Tuesday evening at $ 20 a share, according to reports, giving the Internet domain hosting company a valuation of nearly $ 4.5 billion.

If your loved ones make an investment based on a company valuation of $ 5 million, «it's not a fun dynamic when professional investors come along later on and tell them it's only worth $ 1.5 million,» says Cohen.

Today the young CEO regularly stays with Airbnb hosts, though with a company valuation of more than $ 2 billion, he probably isn't sleeping on any air mattresses.

Spotify made its highly anticipated Wall Street debut on Tuesday, with a closing price of $ 149.60, giving the music streaming company a valuation of $ 26.6 billion.

According to one such globally accepted metric for oil industry giants — enterprise value vs. earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)-- in order for Aramco to reach a company valuation of $ 2 trillion, it needs to report an EBITDA of around $ 130 billion next year, according to Reuters estimates.

As an investor who buys shares in individual, high quality companies the valuation of the entire market is but a secondary concern.

A P / E of 4 gives a company valuation of # 8.4 m for this period.

Xiaomi raises a whopping $ 1.1 billion in the latest round of funding, giving the company a valuation of $ 45 billion.

Since Spotify didn't do an IPO, it set a «reference price» of $ 132 per share, which would have given the company a valuation of $ 23.5 billion.

Not exact matches

This year, it's private companies that have seen their valuations slashed, and private company shares aren't in the 401ks of most investors.

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

T. Rowe Price cut valuations for 12 of its 17 investments in private tech companies, including the accommodations share site Airbnb, ride share company Uber, cloud storage company Dropbox as well as open - source development company Cloudera, and Evernote, the organization app company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

The two companies chose Hong Kong because of the city's new listing regime, its familiarity with Chinese firms, potentially higher valuations and its convenient timezone for mainland executives, the sources said.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

And although BlackRock cut its valuation of its shares in the company by 25 percent, according to The Wall Street Journal, Dropbox has a whopping 400 million customers and some eight million companies using its services.

The company had a $ 230 billion market valuation as of September 2015.

Service businesses are best valued on revenue and profitability since there are few hard assets, while production assets of companies in manufacturing tend to be substantial drivers of valuation along with revenue and profitability.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

Roberts also had a second company go public last week, when antibacterials developer Achaogen Inc. (akao) raised $ 72 million at a valuation north of $ 200 million (it's shares have risen 35 % since the IPO).

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

Smith, 38, is the cofounder and CEO of Qualtrics, an online survey company with 1,200 employees and a valuation of more than $ 1 billion.

That could certainly be a problem for companies such as Square, which filed its IPO papers last week with a valuation near $ 7 billion, as well as for a host of tech companies whose red - hot valuations now appear to be cooling.

None of the other companies mentioned in this story in connection with their valuations responded by deadline.

Investors have been saying, WeLike to WeWork: This year Neumann and his coworking company raised an additional $ 2.5 billion in funding — much of which is earmarked toward aggressive expansion in Asia — at a valuation of $ 20 billion.

That may be why WeWork has a tech - level valuation of $ 20 billion — though skeptics question whether it should be treated like a tech company, given that real estate is so integral to its main product.

Shareholders remain patient for now, but with every quarter that passes without any glimmers of hope, that patience grows thin and the company's valuation keeps dropping.

The company says it aims to raise roughly one billion euros ($ 1.1 billion) in the IPO, which would give it a valuation of 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.9 billion).

In the startup world, the odds of a company achieving a valuation of $ 1 billion or more is considered so slim, it's named after a mythical beast — the unicorn.

This brings the company's total funding to $ 892 million, and a reported valuation of over $ 3 billion, according to CNBC sources.

When Facebook took on its first round of financing in 2005, for $ 13 million, Parker pushed for a high valuation of the company»» about $ 100 million at the time.

Predictably, more big deals means more companies with so - called unicorn valuations of at least $ 1 billion.

The cohort of companies set to attain a billion - dollar valuation — a «unicorn,» or, in Canada, a «narwhal» — has also changed since the days when Shopify was still the next big thing.

But its focus on institutional holdings in unicorn companies is particularly well - timed, as numerous questions have arisen in recent months over whether such companies can continue to support their extraordinary valuations, some of which have stretched into the billions of dollars.

Milestone financing ratchets up valuation with each goal reached and helps build credibility for a company in the eyes of potential investors.

Many of these late - stage companies are known as unicorns, as their valuations exceed $ 1 billion, and they include car - share service Uber and apartment - share service Airbnb, which are currently valued at more than $ 50 billion and $ 13 billion, respectively.

When Holmes landed on the Forbes billionaire list in 2014, Theranos had raised $ 400 million, and the company had a valuation of $ 9 billion.

Following a November funding round of $ 100 million, the company's valuation shot up to $ 25 billion.

The car share company, which operates in 63 countries and 300 cities, is currently the most valuable privately held startup, worth a staggering $ 52 billion, and its valuation could notch even higher as it is reportedly seeking a new round of financing, reportedly worth $ 1 billion.

The news of that probe on Monday helped to drive the company's valuation down below what it was at the start of the year.

However, it could have an outsize influence on private company valuations and limit the size of startup funding rounds.

In the third quarter of 2015, 23 companies were crowned «unicorns,» achieving a valuation of $ 1 billion or more, according to a study from researchers CB Insights.