With a market capitalization of over 21 billion; is YAHOO a takeover target?

Question

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Answer 1

A better read will be Tues (Oct. 17) after Intel and YHOO! report earnings for the fiscal 3rd quarter. Lower share price equals lower market caps. Most anything is possible in acquisitions, take-overs and mergers. The Google acquisition of YouTube was an all-stock deal. Likely Facebook will soon be in play. Some of the major players in speculation of any valuable Internet acquisition is Microsoft, Newscorp (MySpace) and Viacom (MTV).

Answer 2

Probably not. They would first have to have some tangible assets and they do not. Secondly a short study of what they call "ad revenues" includes those that are traded from one site to another. So if Pepsi buys an ad that is listed at say $500,000, but Pepsi only pays $1000.00 for the ad the higher number is listed under ad revenues then deducted later as an expense. In other words reported revenues are grossly exaggerated and anyone who had the knowledge would not consider trying to take over a company that isn't really worth anything. By "worth" I mean properties that can be sold on any market where the parts together have more value than the sum, but each individual part would have to have some unique value, that would be worth anything at all when broken down.

Answer 3

interior the quick term Yahoo will reject the bid because of the fact the inventory is at a low ingredient and 40 4 billion isn't adequate. Yahoo purchasers will bypass away Yahoo in droves if Microsoft tries to imprint its buggy customer heavy kit on Yahoo's computers. the appropriate case situation is that Microsoft could contain some style of information superhighway based Microsoft place of work into the MicroHoo internet site. the only concern with that's that i'm optimistic Microsoft investors are sitting around saying why can we could desire to consistently purchase Yahoo to try this? we are able to do it without Yahoo and not spend 40 4 billion. i'm additionally uncertain why Microsoft could spend 40 4 billion to become the #2 seek engine...

Answer 4

they all are a takeover: myspace, google, youtube, AOL

Answer 5

YES!