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Comment by DelaneyM

Everyone currently holding $TWTR believes that the true value is greater than the current price.

To make a successful hostile bid, you need to pay not just "more than the current price", but "more than the holders of 50% of current shares believe the company to be worth". Usually bidders use analyst price targets to guess at the distribution of holders' internal price targets.

This is what makes it so difficult, and why this bid is very likely to be rejected.

(This is easier to explain with a white board, tbh.)

parent DelaneyM 4 years ago

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