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Is there any analysis of leveraged buyouts over the last x years? Rather than selecting the ones that end in disaster. For example the Dell buyout [1] doesn't s

Is there any analysis of leveraged buyouts over the last x years? Rather than selecting the ones that end in disaster. For example the Dell buyout [1] doesn't seem to have caused a catastrophe yet. Purely anecdotally, but I am typing this on a Dell desktop and regularly use a Dell laptop and I am very happy with both, I am particularly happy with their Linux support. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#2013_buyout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#2013_buyout

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merb 9y ago
you can't compare the buyout of dell with toys 'R' us. I mean he actually got a 75% stake out of the buyout which means that he actually used a lot of his own cash to close the deal. Also after two years he could double the value of Dell. Something that is just amazing. In 2015 he bought EMC and made the biggest tech mergers in history. Dell now has 140.000 employees and has a revenue of like 60 billion annualy. I mean it's way harder to die if you combine dell, emc, pivotal, rsa and vmware...