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It will not happen: confidentiality issues.
http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/07/18/arm-holdings-plc-scores-takeover-bid-from-softbank-group/
Come on let us see a counterbid from Apple. £17 per share is too cheap for a company which leads the market and is going places!
Catsize, many thanks. Any fear/speculation that this offer will be quashed? I'm guessing not, since Britain will want to show it's open for business after brexit
Get used to it. With brexit our currency will make takeovers easier the trade off is we can control EU migrants and make deals with say, Japan. We can hopefully keep the UK as tourist friendly as possible and prevent overpopulation and littered streets etc etc. Just been looking for Softbank, it seems to be a conglomerate but ARM wiil be its biggest constituent and if they are planning to double the employees it will probably be more ARM than anything else. Can't buy in Tddirect though.
jason some will take a quick profit and maybe invest in another stock the £17 will not come for a while others will wait for the offer and then take the £17 i will wait and hope for a white knight as already posted maybe tim will be interested dyor cat
Could somebody explain why this is trade below the offer price of 17 pounds?
This is a great shame. it appears that almost any successful globally positioned company in the UK gets bought out from abroad. it is also true (but less well known) that we own more of foreign companies than foreign organizations own of our companies but that is mostly historical stuff. nowadays the flow is decidedly one directional. our government has 0 power to do anything about it (even if they wanted to) because of our laws and free market agreements. so any petition to ask them to intervene is a futile gesture, the same with requests to intervene in the steel industry. On the other hand, I had quite a large investment here from April which I saw as a safe stock to start slowly going up and I was 30% up already. I never expected to get 70% up within a year so I am pretty pleased on a personal level. I am sure other holders will be feeling good about it too. but torn by the wider issue of losing this great UK company (especially as I work in Cambridge in the tech sector). Also I don't believe the line that they will grow the company in the UK. almost every UK takeover includes the promise to grow the UK operation and almost every single one goes back on this promise in short order.
Indeed it is. A great company, one of the few that the UK has produced recently. Quietly dominant in its field - one that is growing and growing. Company brilliantly positioned. It would be a big shame to see this go owing to the pound's weakness. Opportunistic purchase.
ARM will go down in history as one of the greatest companies of all time.
only tim(e) will tell dyor cat
They must be worried about brexit and it is managements way of deserting a potentially sinking ship. Is it better to be bought by an asian company rather than american? Softbank will double workforce though that is not the way ARM has grown is it- you can't just double the software talent it has to emerge from the brains that are in the world. it can't be bought in.
Well those analysts got that wrong with ARM!
Cadburys all over again...this nation has no pride....
Apologies for board hopping; but ! The petition is going quite well; ~5950 signatures so far. ONLY 4 weeks to go !!! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112044/sponsors/frRbCOsOLO6QqIN82UOX If you hate seeing buys reported as sells etc!!!!!! Has already been sent to Martin Lewis, Daily Mail, Moneyweek & Watchdog. If you follow tweeters etc, send it to them please! If this petition doesn’t reach 10,000; then imo we might as well have not bothered as it will almost certainly be filed B1N; @ 10,000 the government should respond. So – If you haven’t yet signed or indeed have but haven’t passed it on to others, then now’s the time to do so.
out while the going is very good, bought in here some time ago and more or less forgot about it....very happy with what I have made here !!! Good luck all
could well do, think they will be concerned as they buy a lot of components from ARM
Yes... this can happen. And what is being talked about are the likes of intel etc not wanting to miss out and starting a bidding war... so its only the beginning here imo. Could be a fun week for all those in. Of course it will open @ around the bid price so no chance of "cheap" entry... :(
Oh ****! All is Lost. Been here before - DotCom Bust. A lot of our best Tech stocks were bought out by foreigners, and now they are gone - lost forever. I would not sell Arm for £40 (unless it increases to more than 25% Port). I will make a lot of money out of this deal, but I regarded them as having massive potential. Brexit vote and pound devaluation made arm look so cheap, so the Japs just bought them. So are all the Builders. Foreign Coys will notice this and buy them. Time to migrate and whittle spoons. I fancy Canada!
£17 a share!!! Woah!!!!!
Can our Govt let this happen ???
I forgot my FEET holding which I bought on issue and has responded particularly well to Brexit.
1668 Hong Kong -62% down XPHG -11.58% up VOF - 30.86% up JMC- 6.92% up above held with tddirectinvesting HCM- 8% up and held with HLansdown Not exciting figures Nige_W but have benefitted from Brexit.
Too true - all their income in Dollars. Pound lowest level against Dollar for 31 Years. All this as IoT taking Off. But 20.3% of my Port so can't buy any more! Who do you use to invest in Asia, and which Asian coys do you hold?
Should have guessed this one would be a good hedge against depreciating pound. My portfolio has actually increased today with this gain and my asian stock.