What you need to know about the Facebook IPO

Facebook has finally filed for its IPO [Initial public offering] and this is an official announcement. There surely has been lots of talks about its merits and demerits and whether it is undervalued or overvalued.Some of the facts that has been collected from the Facebook’s IPO have been presented here.

Here are some facts that will fascinate you:

• If Facebook manages a total of $100 billion, this is how much the shareholders and the inverstors will rake in after the IPO:

Mark Zuckerberg: $28.4 billion
Dustin Moskovitz: $7.6 billion
Peter Thiel: $2.5 billion
Jim Breyer: $11.4 billion

• Facebook generated a total of about $3.7 billion revenue in 2011 which is about 88% more from almost $2 billion in 2010.
• Over 1 out of 10 people on Earth use Facebook.
• Facebook has 845 million active users every month.The daily active users are around 483 million which simply means that more than half of its total users logs into Facebook at least once everyday.
• Only 3 US companies have manged over $10 billion IPO. They are AT&T, GM, and Visa
• It has nearly $4 billion. This figure will be up by around $5 billion following the IPO.
• Mark Zuckerberg will retain about 57% of the absolute voting ability through assorted classes of Facebook stock post-IPO.
• Facebook generated 12% of its total revenue from Zynga in 2011.
• It has an impressively top operating allowance of around 47%. It made a total profit of $1 billion in the year 2011.
• Facebook had more than mobile phones 425 million users in December 2011 i.e. users who have logged in using their cellphones.
• Facebook users generated 2.7 billion likes and comments in the month of December last year.
• About 250 million photos are uploaded everyday on Facebook which makes it the largest photo sharing site, larger than even Imageshack or Picasa which are exclusively photo sharing sites.
• Facebook paid around 41% in taxes, a abundant amount than a lot of technology companies which bargain their able tax ante by acquisition of their money through adopted tax havens.

Also check out: Facebook S-1 IPO Filing

Some of the above Facts has been beautifully presented through the infograph which is a must read for all. This infograph has been by the group over at accountingdegreeonline.