Facebook flotation: How the others fared
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Facebook floated on the US stock exchange on Friday to much fanfare. By the end of its first day of trading the company was valued at about $105bn.
Other major internet companies have travelled the same route before but their fortunes have varied. Find out what would have happened had you invested a $100 in Amazon, Baidu, eBay, Google, LinkedIn, or Yahoo.
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* this is the price at flotation once subsequent stock splits are taken into account. A stock split occurs where additional shares are issued following the initial public share offering.
** this is the share price at approx. 1000GMT on Friday 18 May 2012