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Dell Confirms and Details Rival Bids From Blackstone and Icahn
DavidGilbert99 writes "Dell has confirmed it has received 'two alternative acquisition proposals' from billionaire investor Carl Icahn and the world's largest equity firm Blackstone. These bids rival the $24.4 billion offer made by co-founder Michael Dell and equity firm Silver Lake last month, who want to take the company private. Dell also confirmed details of the two offers, with both exceeding Michael Dell's original offer of $13.65 per share, with Blackstone offering $14.25 and Icahn offering $15 per share."
Seriously, Dell's best days are behind it.
Icahnnot believe how much money these folks have.
to rely on going forward, any offer is investment suicide.
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.... Apple is one of the most popular brands ever and that's because it re-invented itself. Dell has a shot at re-branding itself with the right leadership.
I hope they do and are successful once again.
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..time to go long on Dell stock?
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Here is the email he sent me, edited for length:
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So – answer me this:
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Thanks.
Alexander Peter Kowalski
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Send me the names of the files in question, and we will double check their detection status.
Sent from my iPhone.
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No story mentions that. He certainly doesn't have 26.8B dollars. Is it a bluff to get the dividends he wanted?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Witness first hand the attempted destruction of a large American company. These bids aren't serving anyone's interest except a select few. (Despite claiming to be for "shareholder interest")
If any of these parties get hold of Dell, the company will be dead inside a few years. Assets stripped, loaded with debt, pensions and retirement plans raided, thousands laid off. Sound familiar? Yeah, it does. Because you've seen it happen hundreds of times if you read the news.
Something is broken. Why is there so much money to be made by destroying companies, jobs, and livelihood? Why is it legal?
How long before we resort to publishing the personal details, addresses of corporate raiders and mailing them to the millions who have lost their jobs and had their retirements stolen? While vigilante justice isn't a solution, it is a failure mode. And failure is what is happening here.
...are likely to be Dell's current shareholders who may end up collecting a tidy premium for their shares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse Let's hope that the ensuing bidding war does not cause Dell to be saddled with a crippling amount of LBO debt.
Blackstone will do the same thing, put up some cash and then massively add dept to the bottom line.
It would be interesting to see who they farm out all the development and design to since they have a track record of doing massive layoffs and outsourcing on all of the purchases/acquisitions they have done in the past.
Hint - when HR goes expect every other department to get slashed as well.
NOT. Dude, you're getting a signal here.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Nonsense. There is nothing to indicate "everyone else" will be worse off with Icahn's offer.
So...MD should call Icahn on the offer, take his cut up front and walk. Then either buy the pieces back at a fraction of the price when the company goes toes up or just take the money and start a new company that does it just the way he wants to go, but without all the baggage.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
/ needs to reduce the amount of characters in a post, so I don't have to read\scroll that dam Hosts file crap in every thread..
He is so accustomed to sucking Microsoft cock that he has lost his gag reflex. How could he live without the Microsoft member?
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Icahn would probably just load Dell up with debt and use it to pay himself a "management fee", and then allow the company to go bankrupt once it can't pay interest on the loans it's taking out to pay him. It's what he does... We should all root against Icahn because he's a parasite on society. His sole purpose is to gain from trashing otherwise successful companies.
If he gets control of Dell, there might not be a Dell left... or at least one worth buying from.
Someone call Matt Damon... Or that Jeremy Whatshisface.