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Re:Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry by slykat on Monday September 23, 2013 @09:21PM (#6435265)
I'd like to caution that this analysis is incredibly flawed. Specifically it magically ignores the entire liabilities side of the balance sheet (when you buy a company you don't just inherit their cash balances but also their debts). This is the problem with most financial journalism; you shouldn't taking financial advice from someone who doesn't understand the income statement or balance sheet.

All I did was take the balance sheet and pull out intangible assets: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ABBRY&fstype=ii&ei=.... I did NOT consider the value of earnings from any of the business (i.e. income sheet) as the investment thesis I made was for shutting down the business, and I don't want to divine profitability from each of the business lines.

They really need to require finance coursework in college so this kind of fake financial journalism gets stamped out.

Re:Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry by bproper on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @07:15AM (#6437161)
One of the attractive things about Blackberry is that they have no debt.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry...

Re:Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry by slykat on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @08:06PM (#6441746)
Yes but they have $3.7 billion in liabilities that this article conveniently ignores.