News of the potential sale caused VMware stock to soar about 25% to close at $119.43 Monday. Broadcom, meanwhile, shed 3% to $526.36. VMware currently has a $50.2 billion market capitalization, while the much bigger Broadcom has a $215 billion valuation.
Here are five important points about the potential deal.
First, VMware has been an acquisition target before. EMC បានទទួលក្រុមហ៊ុន in 2004 for $625 million, taking it public in 2007 at $29 a share but keeping a majority of VMware after the initial public offering. នៅ 2016,
Dell Technologies
(DELL) bought EMC for $67 billion. Dell spun off VMware in November 2021, delivering a special cash dividend of $11.5 billion to all VMware shareholders, including Dell stockholders, who received about $9.3 billion.
Second, Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Technologies, is expected to be a big winner if the deal goes through. He currently owns 40% of VMware, while Silver Lake, the private-equity firm, has about 10%, according to the data provider
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Three, the transaction could at least in part be a result of the recent market turmoil, which has hit technology stocks particularly hard. Before the potential Broadcom purchase was reported Monday, VMware’s stock had fallen about 43% from its 12-month high of $167.06, reached in October. Shares hit a year-to-date low of $91.53 on May 19, making them relatively cheap. The company is expected to report its first-quarter results on Thursday.
Fourth, Broadcom’s buy of VMware is expected to be valued at more than $50 billion. This would rank it as the second-largest U.S. merger announced this year, according to data from Dealogic. Only
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(MSFT) $75 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard (ATVI), announced in January, is larger. Elon Musk’s $41.3 billion offer សម្រាប់
Twitter
(TWTR) is in third place.
Broadcom’s possible acquisition of VMware would rank third globally, behind Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision and
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$60 billion buy of Housing Development Finance, an Indian housing finance company, Dealogic said.
Fifth, the deal highlights that even though valuations for tech stocks have dropped, they remain a bright spot in a deals market where overall transaction activity has diminished. So far this year through Monday, 3,463 U.S. deals valued at $814.8 billion had been announced, for a 13% year over year decline in the number of transactions, according to Dealogic.
Worldwide, the number of mergers announced has fallen nearly 21% to 11,643 totaling $1.7 trillion.
Of the top 10 biggest U.S. mergers so far in 2022, half are in tech, according to Refinitiv.
សរសេរទៅ Luisa Beltran នៅ [អ៊ីមែលការពារ]