What is the difference between Dutch auction and OpenIPO ?
What is the difference between the two ? I just know OpenIPO is just like Dutch auction but I don’t really know the difference. 10 points for best answer. Thank you.
If a company is using a Dutch auction IPO, potential investors enter their bids for the number of shares they want to purchase as well as the price they are willing to pay. For example, an investor may place a bid for 100 shares at $100 while another investor offers $95 for 500 shares.
Once all the bids are submitted, the allotted placement is assigned to the bidders from the highest bids down, until all of the allotted shares are assigned. However, the price that each bidder pays is based on the lowest price of all the allotted bidders, or essentially the last successful bid. Therefore, even if you bid $100 for your 1,000 shares, if the last successful bid is $80, you will only have to pay $80 for your 1,000 shares.
The U.S. Treasury (and other countries) uses a Dutch auction to sell securities. The Dutch auction also provides an alternative bidding process to IPO pricing. When Google launched its public offering, it relied on a Dutch auction to earn a fair price.
An OpenIPO is essentially the same, a modified Dutch auction (which is usually only for a single item) which allows many shares of an initial public offering to be allocated in an impartial way. All successful bidders pay the same price per share. It is the lowest price at which all shares offered are subscribed to.
There is some confusion over terminology: some financial commentators and some third-party auction sites use the term Dutch auction to refer to second-price auctions, which are totally different from Dutch auctions: in a second-price auction, the winner pays the amount bid either by the lowest winning bidder or by the highest losing bidder.
Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutchauction.asp#ixzz2F9TaSbdb
http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dutch+auction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO
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