Which company did better in its initial public offering is not clear.

"I put in an offering at full price and got it."

Last month $2.4 billion in such offerings were sold, up from $981 million a year earlier.

No individual can sell more than half of his or her shares in the offering.

In the public offering, 393 million shares were sold at $10.00 per share.

Last year Global raised $13.4 million in an initial public offering.

The company raised nearly $50 million in a secondary offering last March 14.

He received 869,000 shares in hot stock offerings from 1996 to 2000.

But in the new offering they are selling no shares.

In the initial offering, he sold stock worth $118 million at the time.