Amid Facebook's Price Volatility, What Is the Value of IPG's Remaining Stake?

Here's one estimate

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When Interpublic sold half of its Facebook stake last year, it appeared company chief Michael Roth left some money on the table for an entity with a $100 billion valuation at the opening of its first day of trading on May 18. When IPG sold its shares in the private pre-IPO transaction, Facebook at the time carried a valuation of around $70 billion.

IPG has never said how many shares it owned in Facebook, obtained in June 2006 when the holding company bought into the fledgling social network as a strategic investment.

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