Bryank75 on 10 February 2016
| Soundwave said: Apple could buy any one of Nintendo, MS, or Sony if they wanted, MS would obviously be the hardest though. They have cold hard cash reserves that are enormous, it's not just their stock price is big. They have like 6 of the 10 highest corporate profits in history for any type of company. |
If we lived in a world where poison pills, government intervention and a multitude of other factors were not an issue.... it would be possible. But Nintendo and Sony are untouchable behind the protection of the Japanese Gov, MS would fight tooth and nail to stay Inependent and so a hostile takeover is impossible as the shares would inflate to an ungainly sum.
In this day and age "takeovers" are actually rare to non-existant. What you have is mergers unless it is a giant buying a mino. Where two large companies decide they have some symbiosis or synergy and can be vertically integrated to create value... this is where a merger is most likely.
