Finalmente um IPO de uma empresa que eu desejava há tanto
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Curioso que estava mesmo agora a ver a cot desta empresa e também fiquei 
Aquele suporte nos 26USD "estragou" tudo, digo eu....
Realmente mete dó ver as cotações nos EUA, basta ver exemplo da yahoo e Intel nestes 2 dias...
Aquele suporte nos 26USD "estragou" tudo, digo eu....
Realmente mete dó ver as cotações nos EUA, basta ver exemplo da yahoo e Intel nestes 2 dias...
"O desprezo pelo dinheiro é frequente, sobretudo naqueles que não o possuem"
Fonte: "La Philosophie de G. C."
Autor: Courteline , Georges
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Fonte: "La Philosophie de G. C."
Autor: Courteline , Georges
Site porreiro para jogar (carregar em Arcade) : www.gamespt.net
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Vic Escreveu:Pois é...
JA sobe 22% e o Activo so deixa comprar 6ª feira...
Se calhar lá se foi a oportunidade imediata...
Se a empresa for mesmo boa ainda pode haver muito tempo para as compras. Que o diga a Google!
"Now i am the master!"
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Test for iRobot
IPO will show whether Wall Street thinks the industry has arrived
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | November 9, 2005
IRobot Corp. has charmed homeowners with its Roomba vacuum cleaners that scour floors for dust. It's buoyed soldiers with its mobile PackBots that hunt for ammunition in caves. But today the Burlington company faces its toughest constituency yet: investors.
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Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts In a rare public stock sale by a robot maker, iRobot issued 5 million shares for $24 per share yesterday, raising $120 million for the company. IRobot will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange this morning under the symbol IRBT.
IRobot's initial public offering will be a test of whether robotics, a field that long has drawn public fascination but Wall Street skepticism, is finally ready to emerge as a business sector worth investing in. The company's public launch will also measure the health of the nation's IPO market, largely frozen since 2001, which has been slowly thawing the past two years. The ability to take a company public is critical to entrepreneurs and their backers.
''This stock might tickle the fancy of people who want to be involved in that kind of robotics sector," said David Menlow, president of IPOfinancial.com, an independent research firm in Millburn, N.J.
Menlow, who put iRobot on his firm's ''hot list" of stock offerings, said investors may be willing to buy a unique business like iRobot so long as it is on solid financial footing.
In fact, that iRobot issued more than the 4.3 million shares the company had planned to sell and at a higher price than the expected range of $21 to $23 per share suggests that demand for the issue was high.
Founded in 1990 by a trio of robotics engineers -- Rodney Brooks, Helen Greiner, and Colin Angle -- with roots in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, iRobot has taken a long road toward its IPO that in its most recent turn could make all three founders multimillionaires. While software and Internet start-ups rushed to the public market in the 1990s, iRobot spend much of the decade designing a six-legged walking robot as a tool for researchers.
Its big break came in 1998, when a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency led to the development of PackBot, the tactical mobile robot now deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With its Roomba vacuuming robot, rolled out in 2002, iRobot gained a foothold in the home. To date, it has sold more than 1.5 million Roombas and more than 300 PackBots. Last year, the company won an Army contract, now valued at over $50 million, to develop an unmanned ground vehicle for the service's Future Combat Systems program. Earlier this year, it introduced Scooba, a floor-washing robot.
The company's home robots use an intelligence system consisting of dozens of sensors to guide them across a floor. The Roombas sell for several hundred dollars depending on the model. Its military robots are guided by remote control and are used to defuse roadside bombs or search through caves for ammunition stores.
IRobot had net income of $2.6 million for the first nine months of 2005, compared to a loss of $189,000 for the same period last year, according to the company's securities filings; revenue grew almost 66 percent. iRobot finished 2004 with a $219,000 profit.
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Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Company executives declined to comment, citing a preoffering ''quiet period" imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Neena R. Buck, vice president of emerging frontiers at Strategy Analytics Inc., a Newton research firm, said much of the research in the robotics industry today is funded by the Pentagon, which wants to deploy fleets of autonomous unmanned ground vehicles and airborne drones by the end of the decade. In that market, iRobot faces competition from Foster-Miller Inc., a Waltham engineering company owned by QinetiQ Ltd. in the United Kingdom.
In the future, however, the success of products such as Roomba and Scooba could fuel the growth of a consumer market for robots that do everything from mowing lawns to washing windows, she said. ''The investment community has been reluctant to fund companies in the robotics space because a lot of technologies have to come together for robots to work," Buck said. ''It's been very difficult to visualize a whole series of products that don't exist yet but might change the world."
Buck said iRobot's stock sale will be ''a test case for the robotics industry." But its success, she predicted, could attract a new crop of look-alike household robots to challenge Roomba and Scooba. ''You're going to see a lot of robots crawling around your floor," Buck said. ''But you also need robots that are able to climb walls and do vertical stuff like scrubbing your bathroom tiles."
IRobot's public launch also comes at a time when the IPO market has been sending out mixed signals.
Internet search giant Google Inc., poster child for the new IPO class, has more than quadrupled in value since it went public in August 2004. On the other hand, online diamond retailer Odimo Inc. is down more than 80 percent since its market debut in February.
Nationally, there were 219 offerings last year that raised a total of $41.6 billion after several lean years, according to the New York research firm Thomson Financial. But so far this year, the overall number of IPOs is only at 162; they have raised $27.9 billion.
In New England, the picture has been brighter. There have been a dozen IPOs in the region this year, raising $2.8 billion, up from the nine offerings that raised $581.2 million all of last year, according to Thomson. And as of last Friday, the average after-market gain of New England companies that have gone public since the start of 2004 has been 59.9 percent, compared to 22.8 percent nationally.
''For three years, we were wandering like Moses in the desert," said Richard J. Peterson, senior researcher for Thomson Financial. ''Now the market may be suitable for an iRobot."
Robert Weisman can be reached at weisman@globe.com.
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IPO will show whether Wall Street thinks the industry has arrived
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | November 9, 2005
IRobot Corp. has charmed homeowners with its Roomba vacuum cleaners that scour floors for dust. It's buoyed soldiers with its mobile PackBots that hunt for ammunition in caves. But today the Burlington company faces its toughest constituency yet: investors.
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Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts In a rare public stock sale by a robot maker, iRobot issued 5 million shares for $24 per share yesterday, raising $120 million for the company. IRobot will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange this morning under the symbol IRBT.
IRobot's initial public offering will be a test of whether robotics, a field that long has drawn public fascination but Wall Street skepticism, is finally ready to emerge as a business sector worth investing in. The company's public launch will also measure the health of the nation's IPO market, largely frozen since 2001, which has been slowly thawing the past two years. The ability to take a company public is critical to entrepreneurs and their backers.
''This stock might tickle the fancy of people who want to be involved in that kind of robotics sector," said David Menlow, president of IPOfinancial.com, an independent research firm in Millburn, N.J.
Menlow, who put iRobot on his firm's ''hot list" of stock offerings, said investors may be willing to buy a unique business like iRobot so long as it is on solid financial footing.
In fact, that iRobot issued more than the 4.3 million shares the company had planned to sell and at a higher price than the expected range of $21 to $23 per share suggests that demand for the issue was high.
Founded in 1990 by a trio of robotics engineers -- Rodney Brooks, Helen Greiner, and Colin Angle -- with roots in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, iRobot has taken a long road toward its IPO that in its most recent turn could make all three founders multimillionaires. While software and Internet start-ups rushed to the public market in the 1990s, iRobot spend much of the decade designing a six-legged walking robot as a tool for researchers.
Its big break came in 1998, when a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency led to the development of PackBot, the tactical mobile robot now deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With its Roomba vacuuming robot, rolled out in 2002, iRobot gained a foothold in the home. To date, it has sold more than 1.5 million Roombas and more than 300 PackBots. Last year, the company won an Army contract, now valued at over $50 million, to develop an unmanned ground vehicle for the service's Future Combat Systems program. Earlier this year, it introduced Scooba, a floor-washing robot.
The company's home robots use an intelligence system consisting of dozens of sensors to guide them across a floor. The Roombas sell for several hundred dollars depending on the model. Its military robots are guided by remote control and are used to defuse roadside bombs or search through caves for ammunition stores.
IRobot had net income of $2.6 million for the first nine months of 2005, compared to a loss of $189,000 for the same period last year, according to the company's securities filings; revenue grew almost 66 percent. iRobot finished 2004 with a $219,000 profit.
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Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Company executives declined to comment, citing a preoffering ''quiet period" imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Neena R. Buck, vice president of emerging frontiers at Strategy Analytics Inc., a Newton research firm, said much of the research in the robotics industry today is funded by the Pentagon, which wants to deploy fleets of autonomous unmanned ground vehicles and airborne drones by the end of the decade. In that market, iRobot faces competition from Foster-Miller Inc., a Waltham engineering company owned by QinetiQ Ltd. in the United Kingdom.
In the future, however, the success of products such as Roomba and Scooba could fuel the growth of a consumer market for robots that do everything from mowing lawns to washing windows, she said. ''The investment community has been reluctant to fund companies in the robotics space because a lot of technologies have to come together for robots to work," Buck said. ''It's been very difficult to visualize a whole series of products that don't exist yet but might change the world."
Buck said iRobot's stock sale will be ''a test case for the robotics industry." But its success, she predicted, could attract a new crop of look-alike household robots to challenge Roomba and Scooba. ''You're going to see a lot of robots crawling around your floor," Buck said. ''But you also need robots that are able to climb walls and do vertical stuff like scrubbing your bathroom tiles."
IRobot's public launch also comes at a time when the IPO market has been sending out mixed signals.
Internet search giant Google Inc., poster child for the new IPO class, has more than quadrupled in value since it went public in August 2004. On the other hand, online diamond retailer Odimo Inc. is down more than 80 percent since its market debut in February.
Nationally, there were 219 offerings last year that raised a total of $41.6 billion after several lean years, according to the New York research firm Thomson Financial. But so far this year, the overall number of IPOs is only at 162; they have raised $27.9 billion.
In New England, the picture has been brighter. There have been a dozen IPOs in the region this year, raising $2.8 billion, up from the nine offerings that raised $581.2 million all of last year, according to Thomson. And as of last Friday, the average after-market gain of New England companies that have gone public since the start of 2004 has been 59.9 percent, compared to 22.8 percent nationally.
''For three years, we were wandering like Moses in the desert," said Richard J. Peterson, senior researcher for Thomson Financial. ''Now the market may be suitable for an iRobot."
Robert Weisman can be reached at weisman@globe.com.
© Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
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IRobot IPO prices at $24 per shr--underwriter
Tue Nov 8, 2005 07:33 PM ET
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The initial public offering of robotics company iRobot Corp. priced at $24 per share on Tuesday, above a forecast range of $21 to $23, according to an underwriter.
With 4.3 million shares on offer, the deal is worth $103.2 million. The company is selling 3.3 million shares, with existing shareholders selling 1 million. The underwriters have the option of selling an additional 645,000 shares if there is sufficient demand.
The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company makes products ranging from the Roomba automatic home vacuum cleaner to military robots used by the U.S. Army. It plans to use the proceeds to fund working capital and other general corporate needs, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The lead underwriters are Morgan Stanley (MWD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
The company said it has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the symbol "IRBT." (IRBT.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
Tue Nov 8, 2005 07:33 PM ET
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The initial public offering of robotics company iRobot Corp. priced at $24 per share on Tuesday, above a forecast range of $21 to $23, according to an underwriter.
With 4.3 million shares on offer, the deal is worth $103.2 million. The company is selling 3.3 million shares, with existing shareholders selling 1 million. The underwriters have the option of selling an additional 645,000 shares if there is sufficient demand.
The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company makes products ranging from the Roomba automatic home vacuum cleaner to military robots used by the U.S. Army. It plans to use the proceeds to fund working capital and other general corporate needs, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The lead underwriters are Morgan Stanley (MWD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
The company said it has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq under the symbol "IRBT." (IRBT.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
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Aliás, olhando para isto, faz-me arrepender do $ gasto no sistema de aspiração central, comprava o roomba e scooba e ficava muito melhor servido... 
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saxo Escreveu:Isto já se vende em Portugal: http://www.centralcasa.com/prodetalhes. ... =Novidades
o problema é que vendem ao dobro do preço da irobot!
Parecem giros os robots, até cortador de relva há lol
Free Minds and Free Markets
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Isto já se vende em Portugal: http://www.centralcasa.com/prodetalhes. ... =Novidades
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Finalmente um IPO de uma empresa que eu desejava há tanto
tempo:
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/ipofiling.asp?CIK=0001159167
Uma empresa que faz o trabalho por nós...
O Roomba é pura e simplesmente fantástico.
Quem quizer um pode ir buscar a Espanha.
Agora tenho que ir buscar o Scooba, para a cozinha e casas de banho.
Creio que dentro de 2/3 anos, não haverá lar que não detenha estes dois aparelhos.
Serão denominados "Os Robos que mudaram a nossa vida"...
Atenção que são fantasticos e funcionam na perfeição.
Em Portugal ainda não estão há venda. Alias na Europa, creio que so nos Paises Baixos e Espanha.
O ActivoBank vai ter acessivel para os seus clientes. Há três meses que ando a perdir-lhes.
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/ipofiling.asp?CIK=0001159167
Uma empresa que faz o trabalho por nós...
O Roomba é pura e simplesmente fantástico.
Quem quizer um pode ir buscar a Espanha.
Agora tenho que ir buscar o Scooba, para a cozinha e casas de banho.
Creio que dentro de 2/3 anos, não haverá lar que não detenha estes dois aparelhos.
Serão denominados "Os Robos que mudaram a nossa vida"...
Atenção que são fantasticos e funcionam na perfeição.
Em Portugal ainda não estão há venda. Alias na Europa, creio que so nos Paises Baixos e Espanha.
O ActivoBank vai ter acessivel para os seus clientes. Há três meses que ando a perdir-lhes.
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