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Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:20:31 AM
Now the stock is in the $33 range and guess who bought most of it.
NEW YORK — General Motors Co's initial public offering became the world's biggest at $23.1 billion after underwriters swiftly took up additional shares following last week's IPO.
The added shares vaulted GM past Agricultural Bank of China's $22.1 billion IPO in July and underscored the strong demand for the taxpayer-rescued automaker's stock.
GM said on Friday that underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Inc, exercised their full option on an additional 71.7 million common shares worth $2.37 billion.
They also exercised an option to purchase 13 million preferred shares for $650 million.
Underwriters had 30 days from the IPO to exercise the options.
GM last week had raised $20.1 billion in an IPO of common and preferred shares in what was the biggest U.S. IPO ever. Without the preferred shares, GM's IPO would have been smaller than China's AgBank.
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On Nov. 18, their first day of trading, the shares rose 3.6 percent. They closed on Friday up 33 cents at $33.81, or 2.5 percent above the $33 IPO price.
The U.S. government bailed out GM for $50 billion after the automaker's 2009 bankruptcy.
The IPO caps the first stage of a turnaround that has taken the 102-year-old automaker from near-death to an unlikely Wall Street flotation favorite in 2010.
A successful stock debut may help the Obama administration argue that the controversial taxpayer bailout of GM was worthwhile.
The White House has said U.S. taxpayers are on track to recoup the full investment made by the administration and that it hopes to make substantial progress toward shedding the government's stake entirely by mid-to-late 2012.
The strong response to the stock sale reflects growing investor confidence that GM is moving beyond its unpopular, taxpayer-funded bankruptcy with sharply lower costs and higher profit potential.
The U.S. Treasury remain GM's largest shareholder after the IPO with a third of the shares outstanding.
Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Canada are GM's other major underwriters. Lazard and Boston Consulting Group served as advisers to the Treasury. Evercore Partners advised GM.
In the days before the IPO, the price range and the number of shares, including preferred, were all increased.
GM last week sold 478 million common shares at $33 each, raising $15.77 billion, as well as $4.35 billion in preferred shares, more than the initially planned $4 billion.
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At this rate of return by the time we see the account settled we will get back less than we invested adjusted for inflation.
Tax payers and the little guys gets screwed again as usual.
What are investors of this stock, now that they bought in, to do? The stock is well over priced at this point. It will only go down, over time, to about $14-$16...hunter
Conclusions Drawn from Assumptions ARE NOT FACTS!
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