Chart o’ the Day: Largest IPOs in World History

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The forthcoming IPO for Alibaba could very well be the world’s largest of all time when it comes this year, valuation talk is anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion dollars, depending on whom you talk to – more here via Bloomberg: Alibaba’s Average Valuation Reaches $153 Billion on Earnings.

Anyway, here’s a cool chart of the largest IPOs in history (we only need to go back to 1986 because these numbers are not inflation adjusted). Facebook and Twitter are excluded as they missed the chronological cut-off – Alibaba will be a larger initial valuation than both:

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