I thought the acquisition was a good thing.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Anything can happen in a short term. Watching stock price movement is injurious to mental health.
That being said, VMW is a security that doesn't trade on the fundamentals from VMW book (balance sheet). VMW is traded based on the fundamentals from Broadcom's book.
On 31st if Broadcom posts a strong result, VMW will go up.
Last Reported Quarterly Performance Decline: net income -7.44% - net profit margin -12.76%
Increasing large stock trades has been an issue. Institutional investors (public pension funds, etc) have been busy selling Some or All of their VMW holdings while the current window of opportunity is open to cash-out within the range of $163-167 per share.
Analysts upgrade and downgrade stock target prices based on models that depend on company's income etc.
Analysts rarely if ever take into account "acqusition potential" models in their stock target procings.
So, these upgrades and downgrades are kinda irrelevant at this point because vmware stock price right now is NOT determined by how well (or bad) vmware performs, but rather by whether acqusition will close or not.
If the acqusition for whatever reason will not close then vmware stock valuation will revert back to income models predicted by these analysts.
This is especially after the vague announcement about Tanzu during the Explor conference, an announcement that was unclear both about the products that were transferred and about the licensing.
I missed that, what was said? Is it online somewhere? Tx
The acquisition is closing soon. The stock is up $25 over the cash offer price so it's probably not be the best time to buy more VMW stock.
Sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one.
markets go up and down theres been plenty of bad news last few weeks but things popped up yesterday
Large customers and IT managers will now wait until the acquisition is completed and will not make any further major purchases from VMware, until the picture about the merger and product lines that will continue to be developed becomes clear.
This is especially after the vague announcement about Tanzu during the Explor conference, an announcement that was unclear both about the products that were transferred and about the licensing.