Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Facebook Announces Massive $2 Billion Share Buy-Back (At Less Than Half Of The IPO Price*)



From Businessinsider: Facebook just released an SEC filing that contained a whole bunch of nuggets of information, including the following:  Directors Marc Andreessen and Donald Graham will soon be selling some stock (enough to pay the taxes owed on their stock grants)

CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not sell any more stock for at least a year (he sold $1.1 billion at $38 on the IPO)

The company is accelerating the lock-up release for many employees to October 29. On October 29th, 234 million employee-owned shares will become available for sale. (That will be an exciting morning.)

The company will withhold 101 million shares of stock (for tax witholdings) out of a total of 234 million shares that are owed to employees on October 25. These withheld shares will no longer be considered "shares outstanding," so the company's fully diluted share count and free-float will be slightly lower than previously expected….

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