>1. The premiere clients of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley who bought into the lie that FB should trade at >100:1 P/E; and
>2. Facebook.
Wrong. FB did crazy volume on the first day at $45 to $38. 580 million shares were traded and the total number of shares in IPO was only ~470MM IIRC. That does not mean that the big clients unloaded all their shares because of shares getting traded multiple times and by HFT, but the really smart ones(most of them I would guess) sold their shares above $38 and some even went short and are making bank now, while the retail investors and other financial companies who bought the first day are left holding the bag.
>1. The premiere clients of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley who bought into the lie that FB should trade at >100:1 P/E; and
>2. Facebook.
Wrong. FB did crazy volume on the first day at $45 to $38. 580 million shares were traded and the total number of shares in IPO was only ~470MM IIRC. That does not mean that the big clients unloaded all their shares because of shares getting traded multiple times and by HFT, but the really smart ones(most of them I would guess) sold their shares above $38 and some even went short and are making bank now, while the retail investors and other financial companies who bought the first day are left holding the bag.