Selling shares of stock to investors is a common way that companies attract capital that they can use to fund new projects and growth. An initial public offering, or IPO, is a company's first sale of stock to the public. When a company files for an IPO, it plans on selling stock to the public, which means the company goes from being privately owned to being publicly owned.
Dallas Population 2017. Dallas, located in North Texas, is the 9th largest city in the United States and the 3rd largest in Texas. Dallas recently rated as a beta plus world city. The current population of Dallas in 2016 is estimated at 1.3 million, a growth from the 1.28 million estimate in 2014. In 2010, Dallas had an official population of 1.197 million people. This grew to an estimated 1.24 million in 2012, and 1.28 million in 2014.
New population estimates released by the United States Census Bureau show four metro areas in Texas added more people than any state in the country. The populations in the DFW, Houston, San Antonio and Austin metro areas increased by more than 400,000 people from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington and Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metro areas added the most of any metro area -- about 145,000 and 159,000 residents, respectively. The growth keeps DFW and Houston as the fourth and fifth largest areas in the country.