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Title: "Best And Final Offer" - Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $54.20 Per Share
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/b ... -offers-buy-twitter-5420-share
Published: Apr 14, 2022
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2022-04-14 07:43:44 by Horse
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Views: 639
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"Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it."
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Bret Taylor Chairman of the Board, I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it. -Elon Musk
An offer they can't refuse?
“ On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ” ~ H. L. Mencken
I don't know the ropes of hostile corporate takeovers, as I haven't done any in a very long time, but certainly Elon knows what he's doing. If he refuses and walks away, then the 9% shares he holds potentially hits the market and pushes share prices lower, and the market being aware of that would see selling in advance even before he sells a single one. So shareholders have a choice of accepting this offer or seeing their share values plunge to prices far lower than that. So they get to choose how principled they want to be. That's my highly inexperienced guestimate on what's going on.
Actually, thinking on it more, if the board refuses the offer, then the markets will sell off Twitter shares before Musk sells any of his. That will give Musk the opportunity to buy up even more shares of Twitter at that discounted price, well below what he's offering, so maybe he'll then buy another 5-6% in Twitter holdings. Then with some 15% of twitter stock, he repeats the offer to buy up the company at a lower price, say $45/share. Lather, rinse, repeat. At whatever point he breaks the 50% holding of the company, he has monopoly shareholder control. So.... the board is facing a situation where they can either lose control of the company by selling it outright at the offer price, trying to negotiate higher which Musk promised wouldn't be considered, or refusing the offer and trying to maintain control while seeing their Twitter stock value plummet which might see them lose control anyway. It's a guess between how the market will react AND believing Musk is bluffing about sinking so much money into Twitter.
He could threaten to build a competitor to Twitter for less than a billion dollars.
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Those numbers didn't happen overnight. Musk seems to want, and is able to afford, instant results. “ On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ” ~ H. L. Mencken
Update (1330ET): The much anticipated discussion with Elon Musk at TED is underway and has sparked controversy - Surprise! Musk started by pointing out he is "not interested in the economics" at all, he wants to create "an inclusive arena for free speech." He defines what he considers free speech: "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech." Twitter should be "very cautious" with permanent bans, he prefers "timeouts for questionable speech, rather than bans" While Musk said he "could technically afford it," he admitted he's "not sure he'll actually be able to acquire Twitter" TWTR shares sank back into the red on the comments... Interestingly, Musk noted otowards the end of the discussion that, if his offer is not accepted, he "has a Plan B" which is noteworthy as at the same time, The Wall Street Journal reports that management is planning a poison pill to limit Musk's stake. Update (1200ET): Having surged higher on Musk's initial bid, TWTR shares have now plunged back to earth and erased all the day's gains as investors either a) take profits on Musk-driven spikes, or b) dump the stock in anticipation of the board's rejection and the subsequent liquidation of Musk's holdings... Saudi Prince Alwaleed just rejected the offer, via Twitter: "I don't believe that the proposed offer by @elonmusk ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of @Twitter given its growth prospects. Being one of the largest & long-term shareholders of Twitter @Kingdom_KHC & I reject this offer." The Saudi Prince apparently owns 5.2% of TWTR (since 2015)... ...and just like that, the gains were gone... We wonder exactly what the "intrinsic value" of TWTR is - according to Alwaleed above? Of course, there is one winner if Musk's bid fails... "democracy." As Glenn Greenwald so eloquently noted on Twitter: "If the success of your political movement, your national ambitions, or your wars, depends upon the need to censor dissent and silence your adversaries, that's a pretty strong indication that you have zero confidence in the beliefs you want to propagate, probably for good reason." Because, he adds with perfect irony: "Everyone knows that the evils that grew out of Weimar Germany happened when book burnings stopped and were replaced instead by a commitment to free speech and the free expression of ideas. One more time: censorship was a weapon used by Nazis and all fascists, not free speech." Twitter Holds EMERGENCY Meeting Over Elon Musk Hostile Takeover, Woke Corporations Use DIRTY TRICKS A cursory glance at TWTR's chart looks like it was a shit investment, you would've lost a third of your money in the last ten years. They don't pay dividends, but I suppose you could've played the bullshit 'day trading' game and eeked out a few bucks along with the nightmarish reporting requirements. Now some sub 80 IQ towelhead really put the screwin' to you. No doubt Bidet's SEC will go after Musk with some 'Trumped-up' charges, but the damage is done. You don't get rich on capital losses. But who would use it? Twitter has the users and users don't like to switch services. It's a monopoly and logistically more effective to buy it than to build a competitive service.
Jack Dorsey NFT - first tweet- sold for $2.9 million and is now worth... LOL Leftists MELTDOWN Over Elon Musk Offering to Buy Twitter I wonder if Jack Dorsey can take a write off on his taxes for this boondoggle? It is obvious there is no one alive who thinks he was wise when he made the original deal. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Maybe Musk can offer Zimbabwean Dollars for Twitter? But how many planeloads of them will he need? The U.S. sent Iran $30 million (30 pallets of one million) U.S. Dollars to make up for what was frozen when the Shah of Iran was booted. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
If any comparison to crypto to tulip bulbs has credibility, it would be with NFT versions of crypto.
#2. To: Pinguinite, Horse (#1)
#3. To: Lod (#2)
An offer they can't refuse?
#4. To: Lod, Horse (#2)
#5. To: Pinguinite (#4)
#6. To: Horse (#5)
As of the second quarter of 2021, Twitter had 206 million monetizable daily active users worldwide.
#7. To: Lod, 4um (#6)
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TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#8. To: All (#7)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#9. To: Horse (#5)
He could threaten to build a competitor to Twitter for less than a billion dollars.
#10. To: Pinguinite, 4um (#9)
Another sub 80 IQ Saudi...
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#11. To: All (#10)
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
#12. To: Esso (#10)
Jack Dorsey NFT - first tweet- sold for $2.9 million and is now worth.
#13. To: Esso (#11)
(Edited)
Elon Musk Offering to Buy Twitter
#14. To: Esso (#10)
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