Twitter Inc. will file its initial public offering (IPO) later this week according to people familiar with the move.
Based on current estimates Twitter will become a public company in late October or early December.
Twitter announced earlier in the month that it was planning to go public. In a very public post the company announced its “confidential filing” with regulators.
After the company issues a public filing it will have 21 days to propose share pricing and a launch date for the IPO.
According to one insider the company is waiting for Congress to make a decision over the extension of the US debt limit which could dampen investor enthusiasm.
Twitter is expected to offer a smaller IPO than Facebook Inc’s $16 billion sale in 2012. The social network still claims less than $1 billion in revenue while Facebook had $3.7 billion in sales in 2011, the year before its IPO.
Private share sales have valued Twitter at $10 billion, a valuation 10 times less than Facebook’s initial sale.
Current Twitter IPO pricing is thought to be in the range of $28 to $30 a share. Based on that pricing Twitter would carry a $15 billion to $16 billion market valuation.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will spearhead Twitter’s IPO with help from J.P. Morgan Chase Co. and Morgan Stanley.
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