Beyond Meat's IPO was a huge success; WeWork's planned IPO was a debacle. Recent research into factors that lead to long-term corporate success may help explain why.
captivated the financial world at the outset but close the year significantly below their IPO prices.analyzed decades of corporate and investor data to uncover the key predictors of long-term value creation. Applying certain indicators of long-term success help pinpoint some of the critical differences between Beyond Meat and WeWork that tell a tale very different businesses at the point of IPO.
Average fixed investment for U.S.-traded companies in 2018 was 1%, more in line with Uber and Lyft. WeWork, though trailing Beyond Meat in this regard, was still far above the national average. Conversely, applying proven indicators of lower value creation over time to both companies' SEC filings would suggest outperformance of Beyond Meat's IPO and underperformance of WeWork's planned IPO.
WeWork spends on many of the things all companies do — sales, marketing and development — but it also had to spend on finding and opening its office locations, making lease payments on commercial properties, and it also went into additional non-core businesses, some of which are now being sold.
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