I'm not sure who, but it looks like the sale will be happening...
Morgan Stanley updated its screen of large companies that are most likely to be acquired over the next 12 months.
7. Juniper Networks
https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-outlook-tech-mergers-acquisitions-targets-morgan-stanley-2019-8
If private equity would be that eager to buy juniper, they would have done that already. Why wait for another 10% drop? But anyway here is the good news: JNPR was $27 just a month ago, now the private equity have a discount bigger than 10%.
Are you kidding me? Private equity would buy us in a second if our stock drops another 10%.
We’re a cash machine that’s pretty poorly run. A lot of fantastic IP.
Cisco is going to buy us. Then we will face the threat of Cisco's constant "LRs" every 3 months.
Whenever Jnpr stock needs a boost, someone will make up a story about being acquired bu some company. It has happened in the past each with Nokia and Ericsson who was supposedly going to “buy” Juniper.
The fact that not even 6th tier players like Siemens or Nokia would buy us speaks volumes of where we sit in the food chain.
And the prestige scale is getting worse by the day as new technologies and more able competitors (where ex-juniper employees work at) eviscerate us!
Companies get bought and sold for lots of reasons and some of them are not always obvious... For example, intellectual property, customer base, tax breaks, and write-off opportunities, to nàme a few. In the case of Google, Juniper's real estate is probably most attractive to them.
In other words Juniper may or may not get bought for it's products, customers or workforce alone, and the lucky buyer that decides to go through with it, is guaranteed a stellar C-suite and management leadership team that's experienced in stealth layoffs, slowing down growth by avoiding sound decisions, and experts at mismanagement, arrogance, and incompetence.
Doesn’t matter what they say. I’ve been hearing this for a over a decade. We aren’t an attractive enough option to be bought.
“Juniper is getting bought” has been the hot rumor every year for about the last 12 years. Since I’ve been at, the following companies we’re “definitely going to buy us”:
Google
Facebook
IBM
Siemens
Nokia
People have been saying this for as long as I can remember.