IPO offerings

What the devil is going on with IPO offers, absolutely none are being accepted anymore???

The P/E ratios are to high for IPOs to work. Ever since the updates and game changes the P/E ratios are extremely high and you can not get them low enough to IPO anymore. Even with them being raised to 43. You could have a company making huge profits but it is of no use. The P/E will be to high.

The game is taking everything away from us. Profits, GCs, IPOs and many good players. : (

GM's, please do take a look at this issue. I've not been able to IPO in quite a while either.

Your help is appreciated!

We will compute some averages in the morning and may make a change to the required PE level.

I've IPO'ed my first corporation. And have at least one more capable of doing the same.

I tried to IPO twice, but no one bought any shares..so....eh...

So, any thoughts on how to get investment funds to buy into VERY profitable, valuable corporations? They only seem to want to buy underpriced, new corporations.

Investment Funds used to buy everything up Pat. I don't know what to tell you. Ever since the GM's changed it, IF's barely buy any IPO's now.

Next IPO - maybe announce it or try to interest some financial backers first?

The best way

It really does pay to have more than one country and even better a CEO, IPO to yourself then and keep all the dividend profit.

I reckon IPOing is a bit advanced for new accounts, perhaps build up a second country or CEO?

Just my suggestion.

Doing both Crafty. 11 new IPO's today - bringing my total to 12. I'll keep one back, just to see if and when it auto IPO's.

Just a comment on the auto IPO's.
In five years I honestly can't recall seeing one.
Could be possible, but don,t hold your breath.
Does anyone know of a corp auto IPO'ing?

I've never seen it either. Not saying it doesn't happen.

I'm sure I have known corps auto-IPO but that was probably the best part of two years ago.

On the same subject, but a different aspect, I've noticed that C3 pension funds don't just rush out and buy your IPO's anymore. I've gone days(months in game) now without any sales of shares. Is there some level of PE or other measure where C3 pensions, will buy your shares now?

Thanks.

Andy is there a reason or a glitch in why funds are no longer buying in ipos, i have 6 corps waiting to ipo and no shares have been sold.

take a look at the market, last i looked, autoIFs are only buying in at less than 10pe. or rather, in the 5-10 range the demand tapers off.

I will have a look.
It could be that the PE ratio is too high.
If shares are offered and not bought, their price declines and at some point they will be purchased.

We will check tomorrow.

Andy, at the moment it is very difficult to IPO. Once a corp gets to the required market value, the P/E ration has risen too high. I have seen this in all of my corps in the last week. Either they can't get to a value of 300 or, if they do, the P/E ratio is too high.

It may be that this is a temporary problem as the game readjusts to recent changes - most corps have become unprofitable in the last week and enterprises are losing money. But we have seen this before and I hope that, as before, the balance will re-establish itself.

However, it is worth monitoring in case it doesn't - at which point the players would welcome a GM intervention.

Hugs and respect

Jo

I agree with joe once they reach 300 in value and you ready for ipos their values skyrocket, but their p\e go up as well and thus we have been unable to ipo any corporation.

Yes, IPO functions are a real issue right now. As has been said above, the P/E ratios are too high.

Jo is also right about many types of corps loosing money again.

The main Issue is not p/e but that investment funds are not buying ino ipos.

@Redman, this is true regarding Investment Funds. May need one of the GMs to look over the coding on how they assess corporations and at what point they decide to buy/sell.

PE levels are indeed too high and it has to do with the profit period taken into account.

I have explained here before that PE values will start to decline. (already lower on average than before).
however, this may take too long and in that case, we will lift the required PE ratio for IPOs.

This may take place as soon as coming Friday.