Well, folks, it is official elon musk has been poison pilled by twitter. Now, no, even though the name is inspired by the cia, where, if a cia operative is captured, they take a poison pill usually and they uh disappear before being able to be captured by the enemy right. Well, it's a little different in stocks. Okay, no violence here, but what a poison pill in stocks is is essentially a way to prevent a hostile takeover and buy more time for a negotiation.

This is the press release from twitter, adopting a limited duration, one year shareholder rights plan and basically, what they're trying to do with this rights plan, uh is say: hey look, we're trying to buy time. That's what we're trying to do here. We're not saying no to elon musk's generous offer. They didn't actually call us offer generous, but i mean, quite frankly, like look: elon musk is offering to pay 50 uh 420 54 20 for the company and just look at the max history of the chart.

Okay, it hasn't been above 54 20 that much i mean a little bit here when it first ipod and a little bit during some of the euphoria of february and uh late 2021 uh. But beyond that, it's almost always been below that price, but whatever, like the saudi prince, says, who wants to control our free speech. Twitter at 5420 is below its intrinsic value and therefore it shouldn't be sold for that price, or you secretly want something to do with the free speech that we have in america. But, okay, all right.

Let's just go back to this little shareholder rights plan, and so one of the neat things is they do make it clear here like look this. This doesn't preclude them from negotiating with elon it. It basically just says: hey and i'm going to break down, to explain to you exactly how it works, but it's basically a way saying: hey, hey, look we're going to make it virtually impossible for somebody to just take over 50 of our company uh by just buying Shares on the public market, uh and i'll explain how they do that, but in the meantime, we'll still be open to negotiating. This actually increases their ability to negotiate anyway.

It's no surprise to me that they held their emergency meeting one hour after the market closed yesterday. To respond to elon musk, it's no surprise to me, uh that you know on good friday, where the stock market is closed. You've got this uh uh this announcement of a poison pill. Essentially, but let's go ahead and go through and explain exactly what this is.

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That's the next one to get some new lectures anyway. Now, i'm going to give you a rough example as to how a poison pill could work. The reason i can't give you the exact yet is because of this line right here. Additional information regarding the rights plan will be contained in the form 8k to be filed by twitter with the sec, and it takes a while for that to get reviewed and posted.

So now i'm just going to give you an example of how one of these shareholder rights plans could work or poison pills. Let's say that right now there are 763 million shares outstanding of twitter, which there are last close. Price was 45 dollars and eight cents. If you multiply these two together, you get 34.422 million uh, i'm sorry billion dollars so uh.

This is. This. Is the market cap of the company? This makes sense. It's a 34.4 billion dollar company, so 15 of the shares are about 114 million.

So if elon musk got to 15, he would have to have 114 million shares and boom that would trigger the shareholder rights plan. It happens only once when somebody hits 15 and then it gets triggered and people can take advantage of the rights plan. So what does the right? Let you do well, the right lets. All of the individuals who have the 649 million shares the other 85 percent to get one other share or two other shares or 300 shares tbd.

They get to get more shares at about 50 discount of the current. Then market value okay. So this is a little tricky so to understand this, just as an example, this would mean we would take that 85 percent figure or that 649 mill. Let's say everybody gets one more share at a discount.

Well then, we times two and now uh, you add back elon's shares, and this is how many new shares you have in total for uh 1.4 billion shares. So, in other words, you started with 763 million shares, but now you actually have 14. or 1.4 billion shares. This means, if elon musk still owns only holds 114 million shares out of 1.4 billion shares.

His share in the company has gone from 15 to 8.1, so he's lost a lot of value. There he's lost almost 50 percent of his stake in the company gone because everybody else was able to dilute him. Now. If you take this new share, count and divide it by 34 billion dollars the market cap of the company, then the new share price would be about 24.37 and the way the math would work out would be something like this.

Let's say for the non-takeover person you had one share at 45 and 8 cents, the last closing price you get to buy another one at fifty percent of the new valuation, which means you're buying another share, twelve dollars and eighteen cents. That means you have two shares now for cost basis of fifty seven, twenty six or twenty eight dollars and sixty three cents per share, which means the individual shareholder, also lost some money here. They lost about 15 percent in value just to get this person diluted by about 54, so everybody's taking a little bit of a hit here now. I think that's why they call this a poison pill, because it's not delicious for anyone to swallow.

This is also why usually shareholders don't like having poison pills in place, otherwise companies would just always have poison pills in place, but the way the math looks when i do it. Unless i'm doing something wrong, which is entirely possible, we know one thing for sure: we know that elon state. This is what we know for sure. We know that elon stake drops and then, if he wants to buy more to get to 15 again, he would just trigger this from happening again.

Boom he'd lose again. He would just keep losing roughly 50 now based on my math, and this is where i think i could be wrong. It doesn't look like the existing shareholders really benefit. It looks like they actually take a tiny little bit of a haircut as a well to make this dilution possible, and i guess the thesis is hey.

Well we're swallowing something that doesn't taste too good to try to protect the company. That's the thesis now. Where do we go moving forward? Well, there are a few things that could happen going forward number one. There will probably be lawsuits from shareholder groups or attorney groups that say: hey like elon gave you a good deal.

Instead, you swallowed a poison pill that deluded even us that hurt us a little bit, even though we were able to get a share at a discount. Now maybe we're able to get a share at at uh, more of a discount or whatever to to remove that 15 pain uh? Maybe we're able to get more shares? Who who knows right? The exact details will come out in that 8k, but the point is shareholders? Might look at this and say wait a minute like we could have sold for a 30 premium and now you're just making it harder for them to take over the company. We're going to sue that's possible, probably likely to at the same time, twitter could continue to negotiate with elon musk and, of course, elon musk could try to wait until next year when there's another opportunity for a proxy fight and try to collect as many votes as Possible, as many shareholder votes as possible to get to 50 to replace the board, this turns into a proxy fight. It's messy.

It takes a lot longer. I think the best case scenario here moving forward is honestly that twitter bought themselves a little bit of time. Now they counter offer elon, even though i think elon's offer is great and they should take it. I would expect that they're going to count off and say, hey, look, you know if you want control the company fine, but you're going to have to pay us 69.

A share, i don't know we're 50 9 a share whatever and a deal could be struck that way boom you move on because the way the math looks it looks like you're hurting your existing shareholders. By having a poison pill, that's going to set up some more lawsuits, even if you can minimize that you're still giving up on that premium that you could be getting selling the company to elon musk. So we'll see what happens anyway. Thanks for watching we'll see you next one.

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