Re: (OT) Nokia Buys Trolltech

In article <slrnfprsq6.ro2.houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, houghi wrote:
watcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Maybe, but if you're holding shares of a company that trades for 10 on the
market and someone comes along and offers you 16, what'cha gonna do - spit in
his eye ? :-)

If it were Microsoft, I would piss against his legs. Also it could very
well be that I were absolutely not interested in selleing the company,
because I think it is either worth much more then what the current
market is willing to give, or I am emotionaly attached to it, or the
payout is not enough to keep me alive and the income of the company is.

So yes, it could very well be that I would not accept the offer.

houghi

You might not, but there's no way of knowing what your fellow stockholders
will accept. They might not have the emotional stake in the company that you
have, nor the same bias against Microsoft. If the majority of stockholders
in Trolltech are owners strictly because they expect to make money out of the
company, a good offer for their shares, such as 60% over current market
pricing, could tempt them to sell, especially if the financial performance of
the company hasn't been all that great lately. Of course, this is all
predicated on the assumption that the ownership of Trolltech is a relatively
large number of diverse investors. Since I don't know anything about the
company's owners, I can't say with certainty what their intentions with regard
to the Nokia offer may be.

W.

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