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He's just describing what a normal board would do. No competent board would accept an offer lower than recent prices. Remember you only get one chance to sell

He's just describing what a normal board would do. No competent board would accept an offer lower than recent prices. Remember you only get one chance to sell the whole company. Shareholders have had numerous opportunities to sell at this price and higher, so it makes no sense to recommend the sale at this price for all shareholders.

texasbigdata 5y ago
If you read the SEC disclosure the "all cash offer" has a financing provision. Not risk less
- dkjaudyeqooe 5y ago
  The share price is at $45, which means the market is not seeing this as a serious offer. Given a provision like that, you can see why (financing clauses are a convenient escape hatch when making big purchases).
1adam1200 5y ago
>Shareholders have had numerous opportunities to sell at this price and higher, so it makes no sense to recommend the sale at this price for all shareholders. Plenty of shareholders have sold at the offer price or lower, which is why TWTR was ~$38 pre-Elon.
bduerst 5y ago
Right. Too many people are reading the offer literally. Musk wants to exit his Twitter position, and is using this offer to pump the price before he dumps stock, under the justification of "they rejected my painfully, obviously low offer so now I need to exit". Except the market has already jumped back down.
- xarope 5y ago
  My thoughts exactly. If the board accepted, minutes before twittering "having perused the contract, Twitter violated one of the clauses and there I am ethically unable to buy the company", he'd dump and make himself another few gazillion dollars richer.
- chrisstanchak 5y ago
  Hear that wooshing noise?
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  TWTR closed at 45 today because the market called bullshit on Elon’s offer. If the market was convinced by his offer, it’d be within a few percent of $54/share. There will be no exit liquidity, it’ll go sub-30 if anyone catches a whiff of Elon dumping his shares.
- wwweston 5y ago
  After watching him do the same thing with crypto, it's astonishing to me people aren't taking this explanation for his behavior more seriously.
  - hooande 5y ago
    My general thought is that pump and dump schemes are small change to the richest person in the world. Making an extra few hundred million is appealing to anyone, but he'll make 100x that from TLSA by doing nothing at all. I do see this as a way for him to save face. kind of "I bought $4B of stock on a whim and that was a bad idea, but if I pump it and come out ahead I'll feel better"
beerandt 5y ago
Goldman supposedly had the stock rated sell @ $30, before recommending the board reject $54.20. There's a premium expected for a total buyout, but I don't see how they justify ~80% higher than their current/previous rating.

texasbigdata 5y ago

If you read the SEC disclosure the "all cash offer" has a financing provision. Not risk less

dkjaudyeqooe 5y ago
The share price is at $45, which means the market is not seeing this as a serious offer. Given a provision like that, you can see why (financing clauses are a convenient escape hatch when making big purchases).

1adam1200 5y ago

>Shareholders have had numerous opportunities to sell at this price and higher, so it makes no sense to recommend the sale at this price for all shareholders. Plenty of shareholders have sold at the offer price or lower, which is why TWTR was ~$38 pre-Elon.

bduerst 5y ago

Right. Too many people are reading the offer literally. Musk wants to exit his Twitter position, and is using this offer to pump the price before he dumps stock, under the justification of "they rejected my painfully, obviously low offer so now I need to exit". Except the market has already jumped back down.

xarope 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. If the board accepted, minutes before twittering "having perused the contract, Twitter violated one of the clauses and there I am ethically unable to buy the company", he'd dump and make himself another few gazillion dollars richer.
chrisstanchak 5y ago
Hear that wooshing noise?
quickthrowman 5y ago
TWTR closed at 45 today because the market called bullshit on Elon’s offer. If the market was convinced by his offer, it’d be within a few percent of $54/share. There will be no exit liquidity, it’ll go sub-30 if anyone catches a whiff of Elon dumping his shares.
wwweston 5y ago
After watching him do the same thing with crypto, it's astonishing to me people aren't taking this explanation for his behavior more seriously.
- hooande 5y ago
  My general thought is that pump and dump schemes are small change to the richest person in the world. Making an extra few hundred million is appealing to anyone, but he'll make 100x that from TLSA by doing nothing at all. I do see this as a way for him to save face. kind of "I bought $4B of stock on a whim and that was a bad idea, but if I pump it and come out ahead I'll feel better"

beerandt 5y ago

Goldman supposedly had the stock rated sell @ $30, before recommending the board reject $54.20. There's a premium expected for a total buyout, but I don't see how they justify ~80% higher than their current/previous rating.