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Hawk: iGo reached a peak market cap of nearly $1 billion

Kenny Hawk · EP 323: He took his company public for $1b · Jun 12, 2016 · at 5:38

Kenny Hawk, founder of iGo and CEO of Mojio, discusses the peak valuation of his former company iGo following its dot-com era IPO.

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“The peak of market cap was just under a billion.”

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The claim, plainly

iGo's peak market capitalization reached just under $1 billion.

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Assessment

Historical SEC filings and market data show that Mobility Electronics, Inc. (later renamed iGo, Inc.) never reached a market capitalization close to $1 billion. Following its June 30, 2000 initial public offering at $12.00 per share and with approximately 20 million to 30 million shares outstanding during the 2000s, the company's post-IPO trading peak (reaching an intraday high of $15.31 per share) yielded a peak market capitalization of approximately $300 million to $390 million. Because the actual peak market valuation was well under half of the claimed figure, the assertion that the peak market cap reached 'just under a billion' is false.

Mobility Electronics completed its IPO on June 30, 2000 at $12.00 per share with an intraday first-day peak of $15.31.
SEC filings indicate approximately 20 million to 30 million shares of common stock were outstanding during this period (e.g., ~25.4 million shares as of March 2002).
Independent contemporaneous market records establish that the company's peak market capitalization during its public tenure was approximately $300 million to $400 million, far below $1 billion.

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[1] sec.gov [2] sec.gov [3] sec.gov [4] startupfundraising.com [5] cnet.com [6] cnet.com [7] boardroomalpha.com [8] sec.gov

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