Facebook's Epic Offering by the Numbers

The ranks of the One Percent are about to get bigger. Facebook is seeking to raise $5 billion in one of the tech world’s most anticipated initial public offerings, according to a Feb. 1 regulatory filing. The sale may value Facebook at as much as $100 billion, or about 100 times its 2011 net income. At that level, the company would trade at 26.9 times 2011 sales. Search engine operator Google now trades at about five times sales.

Mark Zuckerberg, who started Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, owns 533.8 million shares, or 28.4 percent of the social network, according to the filing. If the company is valued at $100 billion, his stake would be worth $28.4 billion. Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, whose work on the company was depicted in the Oscar-winning 2010 film The Social Network, owns 133.8 million shares, or 7.6 percent. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg owns 1.9 million shares, or 0.1 percent. She also holds 39.3 million restricted stock units. Peter Thiel, who provided a seed investment for Zuckerberg in 2004, owns 44.7 million shares, or 2.5 percent.