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you're right that my math is wrong in regards to sale_price < real_company_worth - it should have been the other way around... (real_company_worth < sale_price)

• jrochkind1 5y ago
  shareholders would rather lose only half of their investment then all of it. It's quite possible for a company to sell at a shareholder loss. And of course, some sheareholders lost their stakes in this sale. > Because the company’s obligations to its preferred shareholders exceeded the sale price, investors won’t be paid out in full, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg.