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Essay Instructions: Below is asking to choose a company to analyze and discuss IPO. I choose Spirit Airlines, Inc. Please see below for instructions for writing the paper. Below is the latest information that you may use to refer writing the paper. You may cite atleast five if not more than 5 for the reference.

http://moneycentral.hoovers.com/global/msn/index.xhtml?pageid=10021

Questions:
Select an Initial Public Offering (or a Secondary Offering) completed in the last 10 years in U.S. capital markets, and discuss and analyze this IPO in 7-8 pages, double-spaced. Each student should select a separate company as the subject of the paper. This paper should be submitted to the Week 5 IPO Paper Dropbox.

The paper should discuss the following about the company:
1. Identify the company and its industry.
2. Discuss important financial and other facts about the company from its SEC filings.
3. How successful was the IPO in raising capital?
4. What has happened to the company since the IPO?
5. What is the trend in the stock price of the company since the IPO?

Please note that the company to discuss and analyze is Spirit Airlines, Inc. Thank you.

Essay Instructions: 1. An analysis of the airline industry from the point of view of Porter?s Five Forces, the Industry Life Cycle, and any other strategy frameworks that provide insight to the understanding of the industry and the competitive position of Spirit Airlines within it.
2. An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Spirit Airlines from the point of view of the Resource Based View of the Firm model and any other strategy frameworks that provide insight into Spirit Airlines' strategic competitiveness.