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Nice. So in a few years, there will be one less competitor in this space.
by kolbe 10y ago
Nice. So in a few years, there will be one less competitor in this space.
- cpach 10y agoWhat do you mean?
- adventured 10y agoThat's a prediction, I believe, that Apollo will run Rackspace into the ground or perhaps just accelerate their demise in the confrontation with the big three competitors.
- kolbe 10y agoI think this is a smash-and-grab deal. They'll write down RAX's assets, then sell them while calling the difference between their sales price and the written down value "profits." They'll dish themselves out a dividend from the sales, maybe issue some more debt to buy additional infrastructure, then IPO it knowing that blackrock and fidelity and pension funds only look at earnings when they value companies (which they manufactured with their accounting gimmick), and flip the remaining shell of a company on to them for a hefty return. What's left will collapse under the debt load that Apollo stuck it with.
- monkmartinez 10y agoThat is dark and I like it. Seems to be what everyone is doing these days, just manipulating the books to make things look good before offloading to the next sucker.
- shostack 10y agoSurely analysts at the companies you mentioned are wise to this and factor in the likelihood of this happening, no?