Clearwire IPO Closer With Year-End Financials

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Clearwire has further set itsproposed IPO terms of 20 million shares at a price range of $23.00 to $25.00per share, plus an additional 3 million for overallotments; and keep in mind that is has the A shares and B shares.  The finalunderwriting group has been deemed as Merrill Lynch as the lead withco-lead underwriters Morgan Stanley and J.P.Morgan.  Others in thesyndicate are Wachovia, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Jefferies, RaymondJames, ThinkEquity, and Stifel Nicolaus.  Here is the full SEC Filing from this morning.

We now have the year-end financials from the company for the first time, although we did already have the year-end subscriber figures: total revenues in 2006 were $100.18 million ($32.5+M from equipment; $67.6M from subscription service); operating expenses were $338+ million, so net losses were $284 million.  Despite the losses, this is one the street is eagerly awaiting.  Here was Jim Cramer’s IPO playbook on the CLWR IPO.

This one is split because the product has developed a core and thereis strong demand for the IPO, but the one issue that may act as aquasi-cap is the ongoing need for more capital.  It will have to raisemore and more cash to fund ongoing expansion plans, so just know goingin that the Clearwire will be selling more shares and debt in therelatively near-future.  This one is supposed to be well receivedthough and may still command a premium because of the McCaw founder andthe hot technology and backers.

Here is the last report we gave on it from January 30, and there is the prior filing on it at the end.

Jon C. Ogg
February 20, 2007

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TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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