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That's reassuring, but does it justify a valuation of a hundred billion dollars?
Shares sold for 330p are now selling at 550p – a total difference in market valuation of a stonking £2.2bn.
LinkedIn's flotation makes it easily the highest valuation of a US internet firm since Google went public in 2004.
A billion is a big number, but next to Facebook's pre-IPO valuation of a hundred billion, it's a steal.
Not everyone is so excited by the spiralling valuation of a company that has yet to prove it can make money.
JAMES SUROWIECKI: There is something mysterious about it — not about the valuation of a company like Microsoft, which is growing, but not all that fast.
But watch out: the taxman will challenge the valuation of a property if it thinks the amount the family has put down looks suspiciously low.
The second, worth up to £30m with add-ons, fell short of Liverpool's valuation of a player purchased from Aston Villa last summer for £32.5m.
"You put a dealer in an awkward position when you ask him to come in and give a 'fair market valuation' of a set of maps," one said.
Lord Coleridge claimed that the auction-house expert, Elizabeth Mitchell, was negligent when she gave an auction valuation of a treasured family heirloom.
German cross-border merger rules favour the valuation of a court-appointed auditor over the relative market worth of the two companies.
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