Alibaba Prices High, Aids Yahoo! (YHOO)

October 29, 2007 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Alibaba.com Ltd. raised US$1.5 billion in the biggest ever initial public offering by a Chinese Internet company according to The Wall Street Journal.

The IPO price translates to a multiple of 55 times Alibaba.com’s forecast 2008 earnings.

Yahoo! (YHOO) owns 39% of the company and that share is now valued at about $3.5 billion

Douglas A. McIntyre

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