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I doubt if they are scared. MSFT had $105B cash and short-term investments at the end of March. Worst case they'll just lose a quarter of their piggy bank.
by cpncrunch 10y ago
I doubt if they are scared. MSFT had $105B cash and short-term investments at the end of March. Worst case they'll just lose a quarter of their piggy bank.
- smt88 10y ago1) It's totally, completely ludicrous to suggest that billions of dollars are a small amount of money to any existing company. Billions are peanuts to only a handful of governments in the world. 2) I'm a MSFT shareholder, and I'm scared. I'm not at all scared that the company will fail. I'm scared that my stock will be worth a lot less, and I won't be able to liquidate it without losing a bunch of my money. 3) The "piggy bank" is the shareholder value. That's where we get our dividends, and stocks have no value without dividends. 4) It doesn't matter what the effect of the purchase is on Microsoft, at least not to a shareholder. The market decides what the stock is worth, and the market thinks short-term and irrationally.
- cpncrunch 10y agoEven if the investment is completely written off, that is just 7% of the mkt cap. It's not going to kill Microsoft. I think you should be more worried about the woman who just won a judgement of $10k for being forced to upgrade to win 10.