{"id":1114,"date":"2008-05-04T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2008-05-04T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:00:59","slug":"no-microhoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/no-microhoo\/","title":{"rendered":"No MicroHoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/microhoo.jpg\" alt=\"MicroHoo logo\" \/><br \/><small>Attribution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danappleman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Dan Appleman<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday Microsoft walked away from the deal that would have combined the companies at a price tag of around $46B. I love Yahoo, I use My Yahoo as my start page (and have for years and years.) I think Yahoo does some great stuff, but $46B was a big premium over intrinsic value for the company.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a Microsoft share holder, you should breathe a sigh of relief that management did exactly the right thing in this instance: walk away. If Microsoft waits on this one, they&#8217;re still going to be able to buy Yahoo, but at a lower price (this is making a bet that Yahoo will not execute their business plan and grow profitably.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a Yahoo shareholder, you&#8217;d best hope the company executes. It can be worth what Microsoft bid, but it&#8217;s not today and that&#8217;s the simple truth. For now, shareholders should be prepared for a ride back toward what the intrinsic value of the issue rather than the bid inflated price. Hope you cashed in whilst you could.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<i>I do not own shares of either Microsoft or Yahoo.<\/i><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attribution: Dan Appleman Yesterday Microsoft walked away from the deal that would have combined the companies at a price tag of around $46B. I love Yahoo, I use My Yahoo as my start page (and have for years and years.) I think Yahoo does some great stuff, but $46B was a big premium over intrinsic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}