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When does FB become an acquisition target
Posted on 7/31/12 at 10:12 am
Posted on 7/31/12 at 10:12 am
With Facebook's share price tanking, at what point do you think it becomes an attractive acquisition target for a company sitting on a boatload of cash? (think Apple)
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Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:10 am to Beerinthepocket
You serious, Clark?
Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:12 am to Beerinthepocket
more like think Myspace. FB != AAPL. They have no tangible product or innovation. Sure, they add a feature here and there, but they have done nothing to "revolutionize" social networking. A new fad will come along eventually and you will think "Myspace". And don't think they can't run through that cash real quick-like.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 12:11 pm to C
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You serious, Clark?
Any company can become an acquisition target at the right price Fred.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 12:34 pm to Beerinthepocket
FB itself is sitting on a lot of cash. Could make for a good leveraged buyout deal.
No idea what the price would have to drop to . Clearly the IPO price was way too high so I would think that it would really have to tumble for someone to consider an acquisition.
No idea what the price would have to drop to . Clearly the IPO price was way too high so I would think that it would really have to tumble for someone to consider an acquisition.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 1:51 pm to Beerinthepocket
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Any company can become an acquisition target at the right price Fred.
Well if you think it's attractive, go buy some now. Any buy out would have to be 50% more than the going market cap. That leaves you plenty of room to be wrong. Dive. Right. In.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 1:59 pm to ZereauxSum
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FB itself is sitting on a lot of cash. Could make for a good leveraged buyout deal.
I would literally shite myself laughing if this happened.
The idiots who want to buy into facebook are so dense.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 2:19 pm to TheHiddenFlask
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I would literally shite myself laughing if this happened.
It would be pretty funny, in a tragic kind of way
I wouldn't do it, but you know somebody out there is thinking about it.
There seems to be a lot of cash sitting around earning next to nothing and i think it's only a matter of time before someone finds some way to rationalize it.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 2:38 pm to ZereauxSum
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I wouldn't do it, but you know somebody out there is thinking about it.
There seems to be a lot of cash sitting around earning next to nothing and i think it's only a matter of time before someone finds some way to rationalize it.
I hope it's Zuck. Then he moons the cameras and walks off.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 10:46 pm to Beerinthepocket
Facebook scares me due to legislative risk resulting from privacy/data mining issues. They aren't really innovating anything nor producing anything.
Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:12 pm to BenjaminFranklin
The ad research data they accumulate is very valuable but that would only be attractive to a specific type of parent company
Posted on 8/1/12 at 8:04 am to C
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Well if you think it's attractive, go buy some now. Any buy out would have to be 50% more than the going market cap. That leaves you plenty of room to be wrong. Dive. Right. In.
Quit being so hostile, this is the Money board not the OT. No where in my post did I come close to implying I was thinking about buying right now.
Posted on 8/1/12 at 10:08 am to Beerinthepocket
MSFT tried it before and might be interested. They lucked out by not having to pay a premium for YHOO back in the day and might have dodged a bullet again with FB.
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