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On Twitter's IPO Day, A Look At How 5 Tech Stocks Have Fared

By Heidi Glenn / NPR
Published November 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM PST
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As eyes turned to the markets on Twitter's first day of trading, NPR wondered how some other tech stocks have performed since their IPOs. (Twitter closed at $44.90 Thursday, about 73 percent above its IPO price of $26 a share.)

Some of these stocks have soared. Others have stumbled.

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