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EMC Corporation: A Bellwether Bargain

Jesper, you are only considering the class A shares. EMC also holds all of I believe 300 million class B shares which when totalled up equal around 86% of the entire company, and almost all of the voting rights.

Tracking the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal 'Spread'

I think you didn't calculate the offer price correctly, read it again. I believe it is more along the lines of the average of .9509 shares of MSFT and $31. So for example on March 3 close, the deal price was about ((0.9509 * 26.99) + $31) / 2 = $28.33 whereas the YHOO share price was 27.77. This is a discount of only 2% rather than the 12% shown on your chart.

I hope these numbers are accurate, that is the way I understand the deal.

Checking these articles and the reply posts it is fairly humorous the emotional slant of the anti-MS posting, and it distorts the facts. Are we here to make money, or are we here to get emotional, someone needs to decide.