Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by alex_c on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:28PM (#29985253)

Microsoft's "looming problem" seems to be the $130B+ in cash they're sitting on, and finding something to spend it on?

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by RC_ITR on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:17PM (#29996552)

Yeah, at least in traditional financial theory, if they can invest it in a way that has NPV of <$1, then they should invest that dollar, and if not, they should just return it.

There's obvious optics to draining the cash balance, but it's not a problem per se, because worst case, they just return it to shareholders and Net Income/EV should be unaffected.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by sumedh on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:29PM (#29986151)

They can give the cash back to shareholders.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by WitCanStain on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:21PM (#29989938)

Or their workers.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by sumedh on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:18AM (#29990589)

I dont think MS employees are complaining about salaries, if they dont like it they can easily switch to FANG companies.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by missedthecue on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:26AM (#29995760)

the same people thanks to RSUs

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