Facebook IPO S-1 Filing: Facts You Should Know About Facebook's IPO

After many speculations, Facebook has finally announced its intentions to go public by officially filing its first S-1 file.

So here I'd like to discuss some of the most interesting facts you should know about Facebook's IPO filing.

Facebook Usage Statistics

• More than 845 million users are active on Facebook monthly (as of December 31, 2011),
• More than 425 million users logged into Facebook accounts from their mobile phones in Dec, 2011. This was the actual reason behind Facebook's intentions to launch it's own smartphone.
• Around 250 million photos are uploaded everyday on Facebook, making it the largest of all top photo sharing websites in the world.

Financial Status of Facebook

• In 2011, Facebook has generated a whooping sum of $3.7 billion in revenue. It has seen an increase of 88% YOY ($2 billion last year).
• The operating margin of Facebook is around 47% which is pretty impressive. A profit of $1 billion is made in 2011 itself.
• The cash equivalents and marketable securities are nearly $4 billion in cash. Following the Facebook IPO S-1 filing, it bumped up by around $5 billion.

Lesser Known Facts about Facebook's Revenue

• Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg will get a hold of 57% of Facebook stocks post IPO. It's pretty high compared to the recent silicon valley standards.
• Everyone knew that Zynga completely depends on Facebook to generate most of its revenue, but Facebook on the other site generated around 12% of its total revenue from Zynga in the year 2011.
• Even if we assume a $100 billion valuation of Facebook IPO, the major founders/investors will get stakes worth:
  
  
  
  1. Mark Zuckerberg: $28.4 billion
  2. Jim Breyer: $11.4 billion
  3. Dustin Moskovitz: $7.6 billion
  4. Peter Thiel: $2.5 billion
  
  

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