Groupon IPO — It’s a Wrap!

After pricing at $20, new shares of Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN) immediately hit $28 on the open. But by the end of the day, the stock leveled out at $26.05. The valuation? A cool $17.6 billion.

According to Dun & Bradstreet�s (NYSE:DNB) Tech IPO Specialist Lee Simmons, �The company�s debut is no small achievement when you consider that it has endured intense investor and regulatory scrutiny, was lambasted for spurning a $6 billion offer from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and was roasted by analysts across the board as being overvalued. Some of those concerns may yet persist, but Andrew Mason & Company are no doubt savoring their public market foray as a significant victory. A larger question remains, however: When will Groupon be profitable?�

Simmons also put together the chart below (using some data from D&B as well as CapitalIQ). It shows the top Internet IPOs (in terms of capital raised), and Groupon is one for the history books:

Google: August 2004, raised $1.67 billion

Groupon: November 2011, $700 million

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD): May 2011, $352.8 million

Bankrate (NASDAQ:RATE): June 2011, $300 million

Spark Networks (AMEX:LOV): February 2006, $258.8 million

Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW): June 2007, $240 million

Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX): August 2000, $240 million

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM): October 1999, $234 million

Dice Holdings (NASDAQ:DHX): July 2007, $217.1 million

InterNAP Network Services (NASDAQ:INAP): September 1999, $190 million

Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He is also the author of �All About Short Selling� and �All About Commodities.� Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.