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You can of course try to ride the next Tesla, but please realize that even Yahoo had a market cap of $120 billion 20 years ago at the peak of the dotcom bubble,
by mrich 6y ago
You can of course try to ride the next Tesla, but please realize that even Yahoo had a market cap of $120 billion 20 years ago at the peak of the dotcom bubble, and was sold for pocket change four years ago. So do exit at the top :)
- TooCreative 6y agoWhat would have been the RIO of a shareholder who held $100 in Yahoo shares in 2000? I think Yahoo had some assets that it sold (like ~$40B worth of Alibaba shares) later on. Did the cash go into YHOO or into the shareholders account in some other way?
- toast0 6y agoI haven't been a YHOO shareholder since I left the company in 2011, but I saw a fair amount of discussion in former employee groups. IIRC, as part of the merger with Verizon, the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan holdings were spun out into a separate holding company (Altaba?) which was publically traded. A YHOO stockholder would get some amount of Altaba stock, and whatever the Verizon part was (I don't remember if that was Verizon stock, cash, a choice, whatever); probably no fractional shares. As the holdings were sold, there were large cash dividends, with holdbacks for taxes and contigencies. As the contigencies timed out, smaller dividends happened, and I think Altaba formally wound down with a final dividend earlier this year.