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    This document provides an overview of Comm 121 Week Three Lecture 5. It discusses Snowflake's record-breaking IPO in September 2020, where it raised $3.4 billion at a price of $120 per share, giving the company a valuation of around $70 billion. The lecture also covers capital budgeting techniques for project evaluation such as net present value, payback period, profitability index, internal rate of return, and incremental internal rate of return that students should understand. Readings from the textbook and example problems are assigned.

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    This document provides an overview of Comm 121 Week Three Lecture 5. It discusses Snowflake's record-breaking IPO in September 2020, where it raised $3.4 billion at a price of $120 per share, giving the company a valuation of around $70 billion. The lecture also covers capital budgeting techniques for project evaluation such as net present value, payback period, profitability index, internal rate of return, and incremental internal rate of return that students should understand. Readings from the textbook and example problems are assigned.

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    Comm 121 Week Three – Lecture 5

    Blair Robertson
    NASDAQ Since Sept. 2, 2020

    2
    DJII Since Sept. 2, 2020

    3
    It SNOWed on Sept. 16, 2020!

    • “Snowflake shares more than double.


    It’s the biggest software IPO ever” CNN
    Business, Sept. 17, 2020

    • “Was Snowflake’s IPO Mispriced or


    Just Misunderstood” Techcrunch, Sept. 19,
    2020

    • $3.4bn was raised in the IPO at a price


    of $120

    • Snowflake is valued around $70bn; it


    was founded in 2012 and its revenue
    doubled in the last 6 months to $242
    million

    4
    Lecture 5: Knowledge Checks
    • You should be able to utilize and know the strengths
    and weaknesses of the following capital budgeting
    project evaluation techniques:
     Net Present Value (NPV)
     Payback Period
     Profitability Index
     Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
     Incremental IRR

    • Readings: Chapters 7 (excluding 7.3 & 7.4)


    • Textbook Problems: 7.1, 7.5, 7.11, 7.13a, 7.15, 7.16

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