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Donald Trump's social media company could go public as soon as next week, paving the way for a potentially huge windfall for a former president who raked in tens of millions of dollars the last time one of his companies was listed on a stock exchange.
That decades-ago previous experience, however, did not end well for the company or its investors. While a 2016 Washington Post review found that Trump made over $44 million, the company — Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts — lost more than $1 billion and ended up in bankruptcy.
This time around, there’s at least one similarity between the two ventures separated by decades. The newly merged company that’s set to go public, Trump Media, will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the letters DJT, Trump’s initials. Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts used the same stock ticker when it went public with great fanfare in 1995.
“It’s going public and we’re really very happy about it," Trump told reporters almost 30 years ago. "It's going to be a great day."
The Atlantic City, N.J., company lost money every year, but its stock prices did well — for a time. In the initial public offering, the company raised $140 million, selling 10 million shares at $14 each.
By 1996, the stock reached a high of $35 a share before plummeting later that year, in part because the company bought another casino for $100 million more than its estimated $400 million value, The New York Times reported in 2016.
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Remember when it was reported Trump hadn't paid taxes for years because he had a massive $1B in business losses to offset any money he made. If not for the hundreds of millions he made from a TV show pretending to be the successful businessman he never was in real life he might have had to declare bankruptcy for a 5th time.
That decades-ago previous experience, however, did not end well for the company or its investors. While a 2016 Washington Post review found that Trump made over $44 million, the company — Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts — lost more than $1 billion and ended up in bankruptcy.
This time around, there’s at least one similarity between the two ventures separated by decades. The newly merged company that’s set to go public, Trump Media, will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the letters DJT, Trump’s initials. Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts used the same stock ticker when it went public with great fanfare in 1995.
“It’s going public and we’re really very happy about it," Trump told reporters almost 30 years ago. "It's going to be a great day."
The Atlantic City, N.J., company lost money every year, but its stock prices did well — for a time. In the initial public offering, the company raised $140 million, selling 10 million shares at $14 each.
By 1996, the stock reached a high of $35 a share before plummeting later that year, in part because the company bought another casino for $100 million more than its estimated $400 million value, The New York Times reported in 2016.
The last time a Trump company went public it didn't go well for investors
Trump made millions in the 1990s when his casino company went public. Investors lost a fortune.
Remember when it was reported Trump hadn't paid taxes for years because he had a massive $1B in business losses to offset any money he made. If not for the hundreds of millions he made from a TV show pretending to be the successful businessman he never was in real life he might have had to declare bankruptcy for a 5th time.
