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  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Twitter was trading around $40 at the time he made the offer for $54 per share. At the current value, that equals $15 per share. The last time Twitter was trading at that value was 2017.

    These are all rough numbers based on some graphs I looked over quickly.

    If you want to play devils advocate on this topic you should understand what you’re talking about.

    • Ech
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      21 year ago

      What? I’m not really sure what you’re trying to disprove here. We seem to be in agreement that the buyout sum didn’t match the trading price*.

      *The price before Musk started manipulating it with his showboating.

      • gregorum
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        1 year ago

        it would be accurate to say Musk assigned the value of $44B to Twitter by paying that much for it because that’s how capitalism works. He instantly inflated the price by paying far over its previous market value in a stupid showboating maneuver, and has, in doing so (as well as his subsequent antics) totally screwed himself and his investors by causing it to lose 71% of that value.