Competes with AMZN and EBAY Went public on 16 April 2015. Priced 16.66 million shares at $16.00 per share. http://investors.etsy.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=253952&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2035524 Prospectus http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000119312515132943/d806992d424b4.htm Common stock outstanding after IPO 110,962,515 but does not include various other bits and pieces, including 11.5 million shares under options from 2006 stock plan 18.4 million shares under equity compensation plan FY 2014 revenue was 195.5 million .
A really good analysis written by this guy. Take a look All You Need to Know and Why It’s Not a Good Investment http://www.profitconfidential.com/stock-market/etsy-ipo/
OK, those are facts and figures. What's your view? Are you a buyer or seller at $27, the current price?
Would like to short at $27 (and long AMZN and EBAY as a hedge) but no ETSY shares available to short. .
Not Sold Last year, activist investors got what they wanted at Etsy, as the board of the online marketplace fired longtime CEO Chad Dickerson and replaced him with Josh Silverman, a former EBay and American Express exec. Investors are happy with Silverman's relentless focus on the customer experience—shares are up 200%. But Etsy's all-important sellers, it turns out, aren't so sure. Bloomberg