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Authored by: PJ on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 06:36 AM EDT |
I think it's equally important not to blame
stupidity if there is conspiracy afoot.
You seem to be pushing the idea rather strongly
that there is no such thing as a conspiracy in
several comments. But you don't know that any
more than those who think there could be a
conspiracy can prove (yet) that there is one.
But if, in fact, this is all about the patents,
and what the two companies plan is to milk the
world for royalties over the patents, then it
all makes more sense that the board hasn't yet
dumped Elop. If they smell money down the road,
they may be willing to wait and let the phone
business go moribund, if that isn't any more
the real business.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:06 PM EDT |
The following hypothetical could explain how an
institutional investor could hope to make money by
destroying a major corporation in which they have invested.
Suppose investor II has shares in two companies M and N.
The shares in M are many times more valuable than the shares
in N in absolute dollar amounts, but because M is a bigger
company, they still own less percent of M than percent of
N.
Now suppose somebody comes up with a plan which will
increase the value of their shares in M by $X, but wipe out
the full value ($Y) of their shares in N. If X > Y, then
this II will make money from that plan and II would thus
want to use its voting shares in N to make it happen, to the
detriment of those other N shareholders who don't have a
similarly large investment in M.
Now there are obvious choices for the variables II, M, N, X
and Y, but this is all hypothetical.
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