Several years ago, canadian sam holman realized there may be a need for a stronger, more durable wood baseball bat. he went through the process of developing the sambat™, a maple bat of precise dimensions. he set a price with a reasonable margin, he decided to take special orders and sell bats directly from his garage, and he promoted the bat with sales calls to professional baseball camps, where ball players could sample the bat. in marketing terms, we recognize that mr. holman designed the

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.