RUMOR: Disney may be acquiring Sony?

[joeorc]

nanarchy said:

Ruler said:

-sony makes 64 billion $ revenue, disney only 58 billion

-sony has 120 billion $ assets disney only 80 billion

-sony has only 6 billion debt

-Disneys value is overblown by FEDs qutative easing, it will go down and their 188 Billion $

bubble will burst if no will use the dollar soon or if the fed stops this programm

-sony is japanese company its not allowed to be bought by americans

you are skewing those numbers a lot. Sony have 120 billion in liabilities and $140 billion in assets leaving them with equity of around 20 billion. hence their share price giving them a valuation of about 30 billion. You make it sound like they are a huge healthy company when that simply isn't true. If they only had 6 billion in debt and liabilities while a 100+ billion in assets then companies all over the world would be fighting to buy them out just to strip the assets and make a cool 100 billion profit.

http://balance-sheets.findthecompany.com/l/1363/Sony-Corporation

the point you made is quite correct, the other point is they would in all likely hood fail in their try to take over. that link on how to buy a japanese company..look over it real close and you can see why a company the size of Sony in japan has never been and i doubt ever will be taken over by the west centric companies of hedge funds. be that by hostile take over which most likely will completely fail, and as for a break up of parts of the company, also because Sony is moving more of its assets that make money for the company to protected parts that to be on point would not only requirerather large number of cash notes on hand. But also require the current board of Directors to be deposed including Kaz, top it off the majority of votes for a merger or aquisition vote for a non japanese investor or hedge fund with the cash on hand to do so on such a attempt would also have to deal with the 130,000+ employed workers that on such an attept would have to mostlikey be retained by large  numbers and by long time employed by the buyer for such time!

The overhead expense, the sheer number of people employed and the companies over all debt, and on top of it on such a market view being seen as "vultures" by the japanese market shows exactly why in the past of 40 years, that no japanese  core country built owned and held company on japan that size has ever been, and again i doubt ever will be bought out by non Japanese, just too many employed japanese people mainly and to ask for japan to let that happen is like saying we let Honda or japan to buy out GM or GE or Microsoft. etc.