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The poison pill says elon cant buy more but current shareholders can buy more at a discount relative to the stock market. Basically Elon was just going to shell
by incomingpain 5y ago
The poison pill says elon cant buy more but current shareholders can buy more at a discount relative to the stock market. Basically Elon was just going to shell out slightly more money or fail and everyone who didn't buy is screwed.
It however takes shareholders to want to buy more. Twitter is quite undefended. Poison pill was never going to be effective in any major way. At most they were going to delay the inevitable here.
The media coverage of the poison pill was pretty bad, this was not going to be effective at stopping anything. The bigger news is why is Twitter so undefended. It makes sense from Jack Dorsey's pov, he was backing off. However even a saudi prince incorrectly believed he still owned twitter stock. It's super unusual for a S&P500 company to be so undefended.
Yet worse, something that I have never seen happen, there are a ton of S&P500 companies that are undefended. This isn't true in other country indexes. What made the US stock market so offensive? I checked all my US holdings and somehow each of them are healthy with the only exception being Tyson. The stock market is going to blow up?
DOW is down -7% YTD. S&P500 is down -11% YTD. With inflation at 8.5%, those are down alot.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoWhat do you mean "undefended?" A drop-in stock price?
- flutas 5y ago> However even a saudi prince incorrectly believed he still owned twitter stock. Wait, did I miss something on this? Last I had seen he still owned the stock but rejected Musk's offer.
- logifail 5y ago> Last I had seen he still owned the stock but rejected Musk's offer. Musk did ask him a) how much stock the Kingdom owned, and b) their views on freedom of speech[0] I didn't see a reply :) [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514683079968931841 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514683079968931841
- JaimeThompson 5y agoMusk doesn't care what the Kingdom does, he is just trolling.
- incomingpain 5y agohttps://twitter.com/Kaitain_US/status/1514645842463891463/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Kaitain_US/status/1514645842463891463/ph... https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514747126210863108 https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514747126210863108 He sold his shares in 2018. What do you think made him sell in 2018 but still think he owned stock?