Ancestry.com Inc.
News and overview for Ancestry.com Inc.
Ancestry.com Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering at $13.50 Per Share [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 17 days 18 hours 57 minutes ago
Ancestry.com Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering...Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com Inc. today announced the pricing...of Brainerd Communicators, Inc., +1-212-986-6667,investorrelations@ancestry.com
Hyatt Hotels, Ancestry.com jump in market debuts - thestar.com
Toronto Star, The | 17 days 4 hours 6 minutes ago
NEW YORK – Two well-known companies shined in their market debuts Thursday despite what has recently been a difficult market for initial public offerings.
Hercules Technology Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Declared a $0.30 Cash Dividend [Press Release]
Business Wire | 17 days 5 hours 29 minutes ago
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTGC), the leading specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity backed technology and life science companies at all stages of development, announced today its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.
Thursday's biggest gaining and declining stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 13 hours 33 minutes ago
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UPDATE 1-Ancestry.com shares jump in debut
Reuters | 17 days 6 hours 50 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O), a website backed by Spectrum Equity Investors, rose in its initial public offering debut on Thursday.
UPDATE 1-Ancestry.com prices IPO at $13.50 per share
Reuters | 17 days 23 hours 10 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Spectrum Equity Investors-backed website Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O) priced its initial public offering of 7.4 million shares at $13.50 per share on Wednesday, within the expected range.
Jill Braff Appointed President and CEO of Scrapblog [Press Release]
Business Wire | 25 days 4 hours 26 minutes ago
Scrapblog, the leading service for creating and sharing multimedia scrapbooks online, today announced that it has appointed Jill Braff to head the company as President and CEO. Carlos Garcia, who founded Scrapblog and served as CEO for the past 3 years, will transition to focus on partnerships and will continue to be an active board member. Braff, who most recently led worldwide publishing efforts including licensing, marketing and sales as SVP of global publishing at Glu Mobile, assumes her ...
Ancestry.com expects to raise $100 million in IPO
Charlotte Observer (N.C.), The | 32 days 6 hours 12 minutes ago
NEW YORK Genealogy Web site Ancestry.com Inc. plans to sell about 7.4 million shares in an IPO to raise about $100 million.
Ancestry.com prices 7.4 million shares in IPO, expects to raise $100 million before allotments
Sun (Baltimore), The | 31 days 20 hours 15 minutes ago
Genealogy Web site Ancestry.com Inc. plans to sell about 7.4 million shares in an IPO to raise about $100 million.
UPDATE 1-Ancestry.com to price $100 mln IPO Nov. 4
Reuters | 33 days 8 hours 31 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O), which operates a website that allows people to trace their family roots by scouring online records, is set to go public next month in a planned $100 million offering.
UPDATE: Hyatt Hotels, Ancestry.com Climb Post-IPO
Wall Street Journal, The | 17 days 9 hours 14 minutes ago
(Updates with new first two paragraphs, includes Ancestry.com performance.) By Lynn Cowan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s (H) IPO proved Thursday what every hotel operator knows: Even when the industry is full of vacancy signs, people will line up for a bargain rate.
IPOs of Hyatt and Ancestry.com Both Rally
Wall Street Journal, The | 16 days 20 hours 2 minutes ago
Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s initial public offering of stock proved what every hotel operator knows: Even when the industry is full of vacancy signs, people will line up for a bargain rate.
Ancestry.com gains in 1st day of trading
Monterey County Herald (Calif.), The | 17 days 7 hours 24 minutes ago
NEW YORKShares of Ancestry.com climbed in their first day of trading Thursday after the genealogy Web site's initial public offering priced in the middle of the expected range.
Ancestry.com seeks $100 million in IPO
San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) | 17 days 7 hours 13 minutes ago
NEW YORK Shares of Ancestry.com climbed in their first day of trading Thursday after the genealogy Web site's initial public offering priced in the middle of the expected range.
Ancestry.com Gains In 1st Day Of Trading
TheStreet.com | 17 days 7 hours 17 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) Shares of Ancestry.com climbed in their first day of trading Thursday after the genealogy Web site's initial public offering priced in the middle of the expected range.
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Company Overview
| Company: | Ancestry.com Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Internet Content Providers |
| Website: | http://corporate.ancestry.com |
Got the the urge to know your roots? Ancestry.com helps people discover, research, and share family histories, and create family trees. Users can search through a variety of documents, photographs, maps, and newspapers on the company's Web site. In addition to user generated content, the site's information comes from the digitized archives of publicly available US and UK census records and other government documents, historical societies, religious institutions, and private collectors of historical content. The company also provides family history desktop software, Family Tree Maker. Most of Ancestry.com's revenues come from subscription fees. The company was founded in 1983. It filed an IPO in 2009.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 197.6 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 18.8 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 2.4 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -63.1 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 670 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |