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jsight on May 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

Oh, certainly if YHOO or MSFT had retained the Alibaba stake it would have been worth it.

It looks like YHOO shares never went back above $45B, though: https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-market-cap-over-time-2...

skinnymuch on May 4, 2021 [–]

The market was not valuing Yahoo fairly for most of its life as Yahoo for the company name after this.

So when Yahoo’s remains changed to Altaba after selling that $4.5B Yahoo namesake and Yahoo Japan for $4B+ soon after, it was still a nearly $40B market cap company. Almost all of it being 16% of Alibaba.

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