Comments on: Yahoo!’s Poison Pill in Plain English http://www.johnriccardi.com/blog/2008/02/10/yahoos-poison-pill-in-plain-english/ Looking for a reasoned approach to things that matter. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:47:59 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: john http://www.johnriccardi.com/blog/2008/02/10/yahoos-poison-pill-in-plain-english/comment-page-1/#comment-8 john Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:47 +0000 http://www.johnriccardi.com/blog/2008/02/10/yahoos-poison-pill-in-plain-english/#comment-8 Another good post, John. The first thing I did when I heard about the bid was check out EDGAR to see what was in place. Let's hope it doesn't come to this, though. I figure we'd get a proxy fight before MSFT plans a hostile takeover. They barely have enough cash on hand to buy half the shares, and they won't want to spend all of it. A leveraged buyout would be pretty expensive in this market, especially with the poison pill. Whatever happens, I'm glad the board isn't just lying down. If we're gonna get screwed, I'd prefer getting screwed at $40 a share. Added your feed. This is good stuff, keep up the blogging! Another good post, John. The first thing I did when I heard about the bid was check out EDGAR to see what was in place. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this, though. I figure we’d get a proxy fight before MSFT plans a hostile takeover. They barely have enough cash on hand to buy half the shares, and they won’t want to spend all of it. A leveraged buyout would be pretty expensive in this market, especially with the poison pill.

Whatever happens, I’m glad the board isn’t just lying down. If we’re gonna get screwed, I’d prefer getting screwed at $40 a share.

Added your feed. This is good stuff, keep up the blogging!

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