A debt load of a $180 billion, and a market value of $184 billion. Stephenson and Stankey really put the company in a ho-e. They will have to borrow even more money for spectrum auctions and fiber build out.
Meanwhile Stephenson is home with $200 million in the bank plus perks!!
But I'll be vaccinated when this train derails!
Too big to fail!
Fact: Bottom line, T will be $150B in debt after the WM deal closes.
Is actually $170b debt and $180b MC and $43b will come from the Warner/Discovery deal to help.
If the debt holders could convert their debt to stock they could buy the whole company!
So when we subtract debt from the market value of AT'nT, we end up with $4 billion in shareholder equity. That's a small cap rated company. What a total disaster.
Alexander Graham Bell must be turning in his grave with the complete destruction of this company by Randall and Stanky.
Whomever wrote about Stankey benefiting from the failed merger was correct. He got a bonus for the acquisition, got a raise to manage them, was handed the CEO job by Stephenson and will get a bonus for disposing of TW and DTV. He hit the quadfecta! He clear over $250 million by the time he retires,
T has an enormous debt load. I just don't understand how anyone, Stankey included, ever thought these acquisitions (DTV and Warner Media) were a good business decision. Talk about throwing money down a rat ho-e.of course Stankey benefited four times from these transactions. Vig for the initial purchase, vig for the spin off's. And he is still CEO, makes my head spin.
"Market capitalization does not take into consideration the company's debt."
Sure it does, along with revenues, net earnings, the trajectories, the competency of the management and so forth. The pricing of the shares by the market is an evaluation of what the company is worth after taking everything into consideration, including the debt.
I think the Federal Reserve and its money printing of $1.4T per year will come to the rescue. With the inflation kicking in, their debasement of the dollar will cheapen the value of the amounts that AT&T (and other zombie corporations) owe.
Big beautiful debt. Gonna help AT&T grow.
The poster that says it takes debt into account is wrong.
Market capitalization does not take into consideration the company's debt.
It is only the current price of a share times the number of outstanding shares.
is that you Randall?? c'mon man, stop it. you already can leave worry-free for the rest of your days and even pass it on to all your heirs!!
The market capitalization of a stock takes the debt into account. The market capitalization for AT&T would have been more than 300 Billion dollars if it had zero debt.