With Xerox’s stock trading now at historical lows of just $3.15 (and who knows when it will hit bottom), an acquisition might seem attractive to one or more OEMs. But who would it be?
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Have to think that Fujifilm would want to buy Xerox in order to protect its install base? Or Kyocera may want to leverage Xerox's infrastructure to rebrand its line of ink jet printers? Or would HP make another attempt to buy Xerox like it tried to do in 2019?
HP might buy xerox... xeroids could pick up HP dry cleaning, clean HP toilets after burrito night, be human ottomans, various jester like functions.
It would be like buying a clapped out old car that is ‘a classic’ and finding all you bought was a complete rust bucket, not the ‘Barn Find’ Ferrari you thought it might be
Biggest asset on the BS is goodwill…
I doubt that even Waste Management Inc. would touch it
What does X have that's valuable?
PARC - gone
R&D - gone
IT - mostly offshored with 3rd party
Admin - mostly offshored with 3rd party
Manufacturing - mostly gone
Brand name - some value, but would anyone want the name with all the debt associated with the company?
I just don't see anything a competitor would want to pay for. Better to just let X file bankruptcy and swoop in a pick off the pieces.
Nobody. There is nothing of value left.
Anything is possible at this point