Tech: LinkedIn & Microsoft, Happily Ever After?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We run through Microsoft’s $26 billion purchase of LinkedIn, explain the details of the deal and whether or not it makes sense.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:09.0 | It's Friday, June 17th, and we're talking LinkedIn and Microsoft. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined |
| 0:13.9 | on Skype by fool.com tech analyst Daniel Sparks. Daniel how's it going? |
| 0:17.6 | Good how are you doing? Doing all right I will say Daniel in preparation for the show I sent you a LinkedIn |
| 0:24.1 | Connect request and I haven't gotten confirmation that you accepted it. |
| 0:28.4 | Awesome. I'll take it your look at your LinkedIn profile and make sure that you're a worthy request. |
| 0:34.4 | Make sure the story checks out that I am who I say I am. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, I'll do that. |
| 0:39.1 | So the tech news that overwhelmed financial media this week, LinkedIn and Microsoft, probably |
| 0:46.9 | one of the bigger mergers in tech history, certainly the largest that Microsoft has decided |
| 0:50.8 | to take on. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's walk through the details of the deal. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, so Monday we wake up to a big stock move. |
| 0:58.9 | LinkedIn, Microsoft announced a big deal. |
| 1:02.0 | In fact, it is Microsoft's biggest acquisition in history ever paying 26.2 |
| 1:06.7 | billion dollars for the company. |
| 1:08.9 | Comes out to $196 per share, which represents a 50% premium from where the stock was trading before the announcement. |
| 1:17.6 | So that's why the stock moves so big that day. |
| 1:22.2 | And mainly Microsoft made this deal because LinkedIn is a solid |
| 1:28.7 | investment in its own right. This is evident by the fact that Microsoft decided to keep LinkedIn's identity intact as its own |
| 1:38.1 | Unique culture as its own unique business spring in their, leave him operating the company. |
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