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GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The stock half wouldn’t even really be dilutive, since they would add the balance sheet of eBay to their own

There's a debt of the other 25+ billion that gets added to them. That's coming from somewhere, because it goes to eBay's shareholders, not to eBay.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago

The debt is only $20B, even then it still works out to about where it's trading now, so still not really dilutive. And it's still under 50% leverage, which is honestly pretty typical for a large company. Assuming Cohen actually has a plan to boost profits, that debt isn't particularly concerning.