Corporate Events

Google Initial Public Offering

Citation Formats

General Reference

Business Atlas. "Google Initial Public Offering." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/google-ipo-2004.

APA Style

Business Atlas. (n.d.). Google Initial Public Offering. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/google-ipo-2004

BibTeX

@misc{businessatlas-google-initial-public-offering,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {Google Initial Public Offering},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://business.interactiveatlas.org/corporate-events/google-ipo-2004},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Google became a public company on August 19, 2004, opening on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol GOOGL. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at $85 each, using an online Dutch auction bidding system built by underwriters Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse rather than a traditional fixed price allocation. The sale raised $1.67 billion, giving Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion and making cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin two of the wealthiest people in the technology industry.

Facts

Event Type

Initial public offering 1

Event Year

2004 1

Cross-Tradition Connections