IPO - Initial Public Offering
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An IPO happens when a privately owned company issues shares of stock to be sold to the general public.
This means the company is no longer privately owned, but is owned by a variety of investors, some of whom are not involved with the day-to-day operations of the company -- these investors simply own some of the company's stock, which they purchased on the open market.
Although IPOs can vary greatly from one company to another, and they require a long, expensive and complicated process, the IPO is basically a way for the company to make money based on expectations of future success and profit.
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