Penny Press Releases & SEC Filings

[cableguy]

You are right about google, but price line. Com back in 2000 was $1.0 / share, Amazon was $4.00/ shares go figure.

Thanks explorit, the way I understand it to be is Google was a private company when first started then went public in 2004 where they had a major money backer of 25,000,000.00 and as you know O/S determines PPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
Financing and initial public offering[edit]
The first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1998 in the form of a US$100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.[27]

On June 7, 1999, a round of equity funding totalling $25 million was announced;[28] the major investors being rival venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.[27] While Google still needed more funding for their further expansion, Brin and Page were hesitant to take the company public, despite their financial issues. They were not ready to give up control over Google.

Following the closing of the $25 million financing round, Sequoia encouraged Brin and Page to hire a CEO. Brin and Page ultimately acquiesced and hired Eric Schmidt as Google’s first CEO in March 2001.[29]

In October 2003, while discussing a possible initial public offering of shares (IPO), Microsoft approached the company about a possible partnership or merger.[30] The deal never materialized. In January 2004, Google announced the hiring of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as much as $4 billion.

Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004.[31] A total of 19,605,052 shares were offered at a price of $85 per share.[32] Of that, 14,142,135 (another mathematical reference as v2 ˜ 1.4142135) were floated by Google and 5,462,917 by selling stockholders. The sale raised US$1.67 billion, and gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[33] Many of Google's employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited from the IPO because it owns 2.7 million shares of Google.[34]

The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG.

After reporting earnings on the 17th of October 2013, the stock price of GOOG closed above $1,000.00 for the first time in its history of trading on the NASDAQ.

Also I'm sure you know that O/S plays a major roll in PPS.

GOOGL Security Details Other Company Securities
Share Structure
Market Value1 $145,385,845,204 a/o Jan 16, 2015
Shares Outstanding 284,816,184 a/o Oct 16, 2014
Float Not Available
Authorized Shares Not Available
Par Value 0.001
Shareholders
Shareholders of Record 2,857 a/o Feb 13, 2009
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Priceline .com in 2000 was alleged to have violation of Securities Exchange Act which undoubtedly led to the PPS decline. also I couldn't find anything on a major financier like Google had, I sure you know that big money backers help PPS immensely.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priceline.com
History[edit]
Priceline first became known for its Name Your Own Price system, where travelers would name their price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals and vacation packages. While the purchaser can select a general location, service level and price; the hotel, rental car company and/or airline (as well as the exact location of the hotel and the exact flight itinerary) is disclosed only after the purchase had gone through, with no rights to cancel.

Priceline's cut of the proceeds was the difference between the price an individual named and the price charged by the service establishment. More recently, it has added a more traditional model, called Express Deals,where travelers are presented prices but are not told the name of the establishment.[5] Travelers can still choose to name their price for airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars. The number of airlines, hotels and car rental company participants in the name your own price program has increased as these suppliers utilize this opaque market Priceline created to sell their perishable inventory without lowering prices through other traditional sales channels. Priceline now also sells discounted cruises, as well as tours and attractions.

In 2000, Priceline and certain of its officers were alleged in violation of Securities Exchange Act by issuing materially misleading information.[6]

Priceline.com also experimented with selling gasoline and groceries under the Name Your Own Price model in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, through a partially owned affiliate, WebHouse Club. Priceline also got into the online auction business with Priceline Yard Sales, where individuals would use the Priceline system to haggle for various second-hand items and trade them in person. Priceline also sold long distance telephone service and automobiles under the Name Your Own Price model. All of these experiments were terminated in 2002. Another experiment, the Name Your Own Rate system for home loans, continues under a license with EverBank. In 2002 Priceline licensed its "Name Your Own Price" travel system to eBay.

During November 2007, Priceline “permanently” eliminated all booking fees on published airfares.

In April 2014, Priceline.com Incorporated announced that it has changed its name to "The Priceline Group Inc." . This corporate name change was intended to create a clear delineation between the global Priceline business.[7]

Now, Priceline.com is one of six primary brands of The Priceline Group.

PCLN Security Details
Share Structure
Market Value1 $52,786,390,517 a/o Jan 16, 2015
Shares Outstanding 52,356,024 a/o Oct 27, 2014
Float Not Available
Authorized Shares Not Available
Par Value 0.0008
Shareholders
Shareholders of Record 626 a/o Mar 03, 2008
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Amazon also didn't have a major money backer and initially the IPO opened at 18$ a share what you were probably referring to was when AMZN had forward splits as indicated in bold italic that took the PPS way down to $1.50. again thanks man.

History[edit]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
The company was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called his "regret minimization framework", which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time.[17] In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a business plan for what would eventually become Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos incorporated the company as "Cadabra" on July 5, 1994[18] and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995.[19] Bezos changed the name cadabra.com to amazon.com because it sounded too much like cadaver. Additionally, a name beginning with "A" was preferential due to the probability it would occur at the top of any list that was alphabetized.

Bezos selected the name Amazon by looking through the dictionary, and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" just as he planned for his store to be; the Amazon river, he noted was by far the "biggest" river in the world (according to drainage, not length), and he planned to make his store the biggest in the world.[19] Bezos placed a premium on his head start in building a brand, telling a reporter, "There's nothing about our model that can't be copied over time. But you know, McDonald's got copied. And it still built a huge, multibillion-dollar company. A lot of it comes down to the brand name. Brand names are more important online than they are in the physical world."[20]

After reading a report about the future of the Internet which projected annual Web commerce growth at 2,300%, Bezos created a list of 20 products which could be marketed online. He narrowed the list to what he felt were the five most promising products which included: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, due to the large world-wide demand for literature, the low price points for books, along with the huge number of titles available in print.[21] Amazon[22] was originally founded in Bezos' garage in Bellevue, Washington.[23]

The company began as an online bookstore, an idea spurred off with discussion with John Ingram of Ingram Book (now called Ingram Content Group), along with Keyur Patel who still holds a stake in Amazon.[24] In the first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states and over 45 countries. Within two months, Amazon's sales were up to $20,000/week.[25] While the largest brick and mortar bookstores and mail order catalogs might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could "carry" several times more, since they had an almost unlimited virtual (not actual) warehouse: those of the actual product makers/suppliers.

Since 2000, Amazon's logotype has featured a curved arrow leading from A to Z, representing that they carry every product from A to Z, with the arrow shaped like a smile.[26]

Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on Amazon.com: Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.[27] In October 1995, the company announced itself to the public.[28] In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial public offering of stock on May 15, 1997, trading under the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN, at a price of US$18.00 per share ($1.50 after three stock splits in the late 1990s).

Amazon's initial business plan was unusual; it did not expect to make a profit for four to five years. This "slow" growth caused stockholders to complain about the company not reaching profitability fast enough to justify investing in, or to even survive in the long-term. When the dot-com bubble burst at the start of the 21st century, destroying many e-companies in the process, Amazon survived, and grew on past the bubble burst to become a huge player in online sales. It finally turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2001: $5 million (i.e., 1¢ per share), on revenues of more than $1 billion. This profit margin, though extremely modest, proved to skeptics that Bezos' unconventional business model could succeed.[29] In 1999, Time magazine named Bezos the Person of the Year, recognizing the company's success in popularizing online shopping.

Barnes & Noble sued Amazon on May 12, 1997, alleging that Amazon's claim to be "the world's largest bookstore" was false. Barnes and Noble asserted, "[It] isn't a bookstore at all. It's a book broker." The suit was later settled out of court, and Amazon continued to make the same claim."[30] Walmart sued Amazon on October 16, 1998, alleging that Amazon had stolen their trade secrets by hiring former Walmart executives. Although this suit was also settled out of court, it caused Amazon to implement internal restrictions and the reassignment of the former Walmart executives

AMZN Security Details
Share Structure
Market Value1 $134,614,495,854 a/o Jan 16, 2015
Shares Outstanding 463,006,452 a/o Oct 15, 2014
Float Not Available
Authorized Shares Not Available
Par Value 0.01
Shareholders
Shareholders of Record 3,552 a/o Jan 30,

Capital Change=shs increased by 2 for 1 split. Ex-date=09/02/1999. Rec date=08/12/1999. Pay date=09/01/1999.