Putting the sale of BSC in perspective
Published by Panda on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 11:34 AMJPM's cost for acquiring BSC:
$236-$270MNNY Yankees' cost for acquiring A-rod:
$275MN, with an additional $30MN if he breaks the home run recordYeah. BSC < A-Rod.
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Update:
I mixed up the BNs and MNs signs, which are now fixed. That being said, this is still crazy.
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Um, where did you get these numbers? I'm no baseballer, but mightn't there be a billions/millions mixup going on here?
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Here's another interesting tidbit -- the building that Bear owns is itself worth approximately $1 billion, about four times the value JPM spent buying the whole kitten kaboodle.
Oh, one more interesting note -- the $2/share price is one-third less than Bear's IPO price in 1985. It's hard to believe the basement price, but I recall hearing that as part of the deal, JPM agreed to guarantee (with the Fed's help) all of Bear's trading obligations, which have a notional value of $10 trillion. That and the potential for additional write-downs and lack of clarity into Bear's balance sheet are probably chief among reasons for the dollar bin find.
There are also rumors that the Fed pushed this deal as also being necessary to prevent Lehman, who is supposedly running into serious capital liquidity problems, from experiencing the same fate as Bear.
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