A IPO év az AgJunction Inc. - 1997
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Through IPO a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors. After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.
Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.
The IPO process is colloquially known as going public. Details of the proposed offering are disclosed to potential purchasers in the form of a lengthy document known as a prospectus. Most companies undertake an IPO with the assistance of an investment banking firm acting in the capacity of an underwriter. Underwriters provide several services, including help with correctly assessing the value of shares.
AgJunction Inc. develops, sells, and licenses hardware and software solutions for precision agriculture applications worldwide. Its products and solutions offer precision guidance and positioning, autosteering, and machine automation for off-road markets with application to farming operations, such as tilling, planting, spraying, and harvesting. The company provides Wheelman white-label, an autosteering platform for manufacturers and suppliers; Electronic Control Units family support modules for autosteering, hydraulic control, machine learning, diagnostic system, and sensor fusion applications; Mechanical Drive Units family that allow manufacturers and suppliers to integrate autosteering on vehicles that do not have manufacturing autosteering interfaces; and terminals, GNSS, and kits that are provided to support manufacturers' and suppliers' requirements. It also offers RANGER, a GPS guidance solution; and Wheelman autosteering systems, such as Wheelman Pro, Wheelman Flex, Wheelman Pro HP, Wheelman Flex HP, and Whirl software for farmers to steer farm equipment. In addition, the company also provides cloud infrastructure services that include cloud data storage, subscription management, over-the-air update management, and remote support. It markets its solutions under the Novariant, HandsFreeFarm, Wheelman, and Whirl brands through manufacturers, suppliers, and direct-to-farmer, as well as its ecommerce platform, HandsFreeFarm.com. The company was formerly known as Hemisphere GPS Inc. and changed its name to AgJunction Inc. in May 2013. AgJunction Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.