Other assumptions were made on capital expenditures, depreciation, operating expenses, research and development (R&D) expenses, and cost of revenues to be similar to Microsoft as a proxy. The net result was that a yearly revenue growth rate of 50.89% was required to support the firm value of $1 billion and the IPO price of $28 per share...
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By Rod J. Fields Executive Summary Netscape Communications Corporation is often credited with launching the dot-com era and technology boom of the late 1990?s and making the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) common household terms and services. This era is coined the ?Information Revolution, since the Internet and WWW was integrated into our modern culture and society during that time...
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Netscape There is little to go on as far multiples analysis is concerned. There are few true comparables to Netscape, and Netscape had negative earnings and operating cash flows at the time of the offering...	2 / 525
Netscape Ipo Other assumptions were made on capital expenditures, depreciation, operating expenses, research and development (R&D) expenses, and cost of revenues to be similar to Microsoft as a proxy...	2 / 314
Should Netscape go public to satisfy capital needs $28.00 / share would be the ground price, and unless the stock failed on the initial public offering, $28.00 / share could be the ground level to own it...	4 / 1037
Crystal Ball As usual, we have isolated the parameters in one location and have grouped the calculations separately. The model includes actual values for 1995 in column B and builds the forecasts for the years 1996—2005 using recursive formulas along with growth rates and ratios given in the Assumptions section...	2 / 362