Yahoo: Apple maybe taking on Gamming Heavy weight

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Cueil said:

goddog said:

Cueil said:

goddog said:

deathgod33 said:
apple couldnt buy EA but EA could buy apple

 

do you know how wrong you are here apple has cash on hand to buy take2, EA, acti-bliz, all at 20% premium of market cap. and still have cash left over, 

 

apple is just short of the cash it would need to buy sony corporate, but im sure a cash stock deal could do it. 

 

 

Sony is worth tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars

 

apple has tens of billions of debt free cash more then even ms right now, and sony is not what they were even 3 years ago

did some research apple has cash on had to buy actvision-blizzard , take two, EA, and sony. lock stock and barrel.


I used market cap +20% as the sell price for each company vs apples cash on hand......

 

 with 25.65 billion still more then enough cash   http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=Aapl   , I do not have an update for the end of last Q this is for the end of holliday Q so it could be more i have see reports of more 

 

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actvision-blizzard  14. 21 B cap

 

Take two 727.28 million cap

 

 

EA  6.77 billion cap

 Sony market cap 26.5 billion http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:SNE so worse then i thought 

 apple has at least   25.65 billion in cash on hand debt free    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=Aapl  

apples   117.62 cap

 

so i stand corrected apple could freely buy sony, with a little bit of stock and if i had updated numbers as ive seen floating around 29-34.5 B

 

and remember apple has no debt 

 

 

 

 

 but they also have physical assets that are worth more money than just their base worth... especially to a company like Apple.  If Apple bought Sony they would inherit the BR as well as the factories that Sony has... I seriously doubt that they would sell for 26bil.

 

sony does not own blue ray, apple actually owns part of it already, fun thing about consortiums.  Sonys problem is debt, which is quickly wiping out assets in terms of fend of take overs, and your right i doubt it would sell for 26 B either, but say 50b a combined stock cash sell could happen, though to another asian company id bet, with there list of tangible assets and despite mounting debt, they are very attractive for a buy and slash right now. 

I would not be surprised to see someone buy sony spin off so close the less profitable parts. Im just pointing out right now apple has the cash and the leverage to make the deal, I feel it would be a fools deal for apple mainly due to the increased scrutiny of the government for vertical integration by owning one of the big 4 music labels, and a conflict of interest for jobs until he retires to be on Disney board and over sony which has sony pictures. so i do not see it as good for apple

where owning take 2, EA, acti-blizz comes with much fewer of those risks, and a good back catalog.