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- <text id=91TT1506>
- <title>
- July 08, 1991: Business Notes:Stock Offerings
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- STOCK OFFERINGS
- Now He'll Need A Power Tie
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- <p> Spider-Man is a high-climbing superhero, but how will he
- perform on Wall Street? Later this month, fans of Spidey will
- have a chance to find out. Marvel Entertainment Group, publisher
- of Spider-Man, Captain America, Silver Surfer and more than 70
- other titles, plans to make its first stock offering. Marvel
- will offer 3.5 million shares, a stake of about 30%. The shares
- are expected to sell at $14 to $16. Started in 1939, Marvel is
- the largest comic-book publisher in North America (total monthly
- circulation: 8.5 million). Last year the company posted net
- profits of $5.4 million, up 120% from the previous year, on
- revenues of $81 million. The offering will hit the market after
- a fallback from record highs, so Spider-Man may have to
- demonstrate his gravity-defying superpowers once again.
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- </body></article>
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