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How Companies Go Public

Companies "go public" via initial public offerings (IPOs) — issuing shares of stock to be traded in public stock markets such as the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq.

Consider PieMart Inc. (ticker: GOBBL), maker of tasty cantaloupe pies. Stores can’t keep these pies in stock. To meet demand, it needs to make a heck of a lot more pies. It should hire more workers and build more factories, but poor PieMart doesn’t have much cash. Oops.

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