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Cash inflow - they are offering the public a chance to earn dividends (profits regularly distributed) in exchange for cash to run the company or do research or buy some technology or even another company. Sometimes a company has outgrown it's facilities and needs to buy new ones but it doesn't have the cash or credit to do this, making a public offering of stock can bring this sort of cash. A lot of companies are not offering stock, they don't have to or don't feel the return on investment is worth it. A lot of times a company goes public because it have reached a plateau that only more investment will allow the company to get past.

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