Fidelity cuts X’s value from $44 Billion to bellow $10 Billion

    by PlatypusesOrPlatipi

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    1. mypoliticalvoice on

      Brilliant businessmen like Trump and Elmo want to run the US government like a business. One of *their* businesses, that is.

    2. From a business perspective, it’d make sense for someone like Mark Cuban to acquire X for $10 billion, change it back to Twitter, undo all the other changes Elon made and re-sell it back to the original owners for close to its original $44 billion value. That might be the easiest way to make $30B+.

    3. This highlights how awful and manipulable the whole mark-to-market accounting system is. There’s absolutely zero chance the actual value of the company is $10 Billion, but since Fidelity has a small ownership stake, they get to lie about how much it’s worth.

    4. “Below $10 billion”

      Yeah, there are 9,999,999,999 digits below 10B. My guess, since it was worth about 10B when he bought it is that “below 10B” is the in club polite way of them saying it’s tanked hard the a fraction on that

    5. Tbh he bought twitter for its influence not its monetary value. Every time his company’s name is used he gets free press. No matter the “value” it may well end up as his best buy

    6. All of you celebrating Elmo having lost 35 billion (whatever losing 35BILLION even means) are forgetting that he is on the fast track to becoming i TRIllionaire soon.
      He swings 20 billion regularly without the world really noticing for more than a couple of days.
      Don’t get me wrong, his taking a loss is good I guess but I don’t think you can say he’s losing.

    7. I feel like that’s way too much for a company that can’t make a profit and has insane debt payments. 

    8. I mean who could have thought the guy who buys an iconic website that’s name is used as a verb and then decides to rename it to “X” would be a bad businessman?

    9. It’s value will skyrocket once Rump goes back in power and X becomes with only authorized state controlled source of Media.

    10. As long as Elon convinces you an asset tax or a tax on unrealized gains is bad twitter could go to $0 and it would still be worth it.

    11. The company was never worth 44 billion thats why Elon forced to buy it because it was such an outrageous offer the twitter board had no choice but to accept and sue him if he tried to weasel out. They are basically saying it’s worth around what it was when Elon bought it but even that is probably being generous with the loss of advertising.

    12. Following Trump media down to absolute zero I see. Why anyone is still on Twitter is a fucking mystery.

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