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Wednesday, Feb 06, 2008 4:15pm
Yahoo resistance costing Mi... |
Yahoo's caution in the face of an acquistion bid by Microsoft may be costing the latter company a good deal of money, one report suggests. The difficulty is that the proposed bid is half cash and half stock, with a share exchange ratio of 0.9509 Yahoo shares for each one from Microsoft. Because Microsoft's share price has fallen approximately 10 percent since the bid was announced, the average compensation for a Yahoo shareholder today would be $29.50 per share.To avoid paying any more, Microsoft must thus hope either for a sudden reversal in its market value, or lessened expectations from Yahoo. As its stock price falls, it must adjust the exchange rate to return the take-out value to $31 per share, thus increasing dilution and giving current shareholders a shrunken portion of the merged corporation. |