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Elon Musk bids for Twitter: what happens next?

April 14, 2022
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Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, a bid that values the company at $43.4bn.

The move caps a dramatic few days in which the Tesla chief announced he had taken a 9 per cent stake in the company to become its largest shareholder but then rejected an invitation to join its board.

Musk does appear genuinely passionate about Twitter’s future. He has had plenty to say about what direction it should go in, tweeting out a series of suggestions over the past few weeks about changes the company should make. He is an avid user and proponent of free speech who argues the company is too heavy-handed in its moderating of content.

He can afford to buy the company, although getting the cash might be tricky. His personal wealth is estimated to exceed $200bn but that is largely tied up in Tesla stock and his ownership of SpaceX, a private company.

And Musk also has a history of not following through. In 2018, he used Twitter to announce his intentions to take Tesla private. The proposal was abandoned several weeks later after discussions with shareholders. His tweet was found to flout US securities law, resulting in Musk’s social media posting about the electric car company needing to be preapproved by lawyers.

There’s also the question of where Twitter would fit in his broader portfolio. Musk has previously been accused of stretching himself too thin — and some might see this as a vanity project for a disgruntled tweeter to promote his own agenda.

In a letter to Twitter’s board attached to the filing he made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, he leaves room for a quick exit strategy.

“If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management nor do I believe I can drive the necessary change in the public market, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” Musk wrote.

Annotated line chart showing Twitter's share price since March 13, 2022

That comment is also a damning verdict on Twitter chief Parag Agrawal’s leadership, a judgment made following weeks of conversations between him and Musk over joining the company’s board.

That same board must now determine if the price Musk is offering is reasonable and if a takeover by a man who has not endeared himself to Twitter’s own staff is in the company’s best interest and all shareholders.

Musk’s offer may represent a 54 per cent premium to where Twitter stock traded in January when he quietly started buying up shares in the company, but Twitter shares previously peaked at $77 in early 2021. The board can offer this as a reason to reject the sale, but will activist shareholders like Elliott Management decide selling out now to be an offer too good to refuse?

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If you thought getting on the housing ladder was hard enough when bidding against other humans, you better hope an iBuyer doesn’t show up in your town. Zillow’s “instant buying” business may have folded, but here’s why that’s only a bump in the road for tech companies seeking to disrupt the property market.

2. Amazon hits US sellers with surcharge to offset inflation and fuel costs
Third-party sellers on Amazon who use the company’s logistics network, Fulfillment by Amazon, to deliver products will have to pay a 5% surcharge on all deliveries. Amazon attributed the rise to increasing fuel costs and inflation.

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Correction: Microsoft 365 was wrongly referred to as Windows 365 in the previous edition of this newsletter. Apologies.

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