Archive for the 'aQuantive' Category
The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]
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Today marks the end of my love affair with aQuantive, a company I got to know working in ad sales over the years and a stock I learned to love over the years…
aQuantive got acquired recently by Microsoft in a $6B deal, making it one of the better performing stocks in my portfolio. Please note, […]
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On May 30th I commented that aQuantive was sitting at $5B, even though MSFT had agreed to pay $6B for the company.
Per share, MSFT agreed to pay $66.50 (an 85% premium) even though as recently as May 30th, the stock was only at $63.75.
Today - July 6th - marks the end of the anti-trust period […]
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Some interesting tidbits:
FRESH OFF A DEAL TO sell his agency to Microsoft Corp. for $6 billion, all eyes were focused yesterday on aQuantive president and CEO Brian McAndrews, the digital adman of the hour.
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Microsoft would give aQuantive the chance to accelerate its vision with an infusion of financial capital and technical resources.
“The key difference between […]
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Yesterday, it was reported that the FTC was going to investigate into potential anti-trust issues in the Google/Doubleclick deal.
That puppy was for a whopping $3.1B, and triggered a plethora of deals, including Yahoo!/Right Media ($800M valuation), WPP/24/7 RealMedia for $680M and MSFT/aQuantive for $6B.
But this begs the question, in a market that is strong-form efficient […]
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There’s been a lot of talk about the steep premium MSFT paid to acquire AQNT, and there are many reasons for that, one being that in the ad networks marketplace, it had become a seller’s market, quickly, after DCLK sold to GOOG for $3.1B.
But in light of the bidding war between MSFT and GOOG for DCLK, […]
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I posted this earlier as Update #3 in my earlier post on MSFT/AQNT, but reposting cause it looks fishy.
What’s that massive volume spike for AQNT at the end of the trading day yesterday? Did someone have a scoop and scoop in before the market close and buy a lot of shares? Average volume for the […]
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In 2003, I began to buy shares in DCLK, VCLK, AQNT, Fastclick, etc. [Fastclick was bought by VCLK, eventually].
If it was in online ads, I was long. Over the years, I sold most of these shares because the stocks rose from high single digits to $20 or so. The one company I bought back every single […]
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Some figures from TheStreet.com article:
ValueClick rallied mostly on speculation that the aQuantive deal — which featured a stunning 83% premium to Thursday’s prices — makes ValueClick the most likely online media player to be acquired.
But because of the dynamics of the scorching-hot online advertising business, ValueClick stands to be a winner even if a bid […]
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The best business, career move I ever made was leaving my old company. We got that.
MSFT buys aQuantive for $6 Billion.
The best investing move ever, not selling my holdings in aQuantive yesterday. This is a true story: yesterday my holdings in AQNT crossed the 50% gain threshold, and having become more disciplined, I logged in a couple […]
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