12. Okt. 2015 - Dell Inc. übernimmt EMC Corp. - Creating Premier End-to-End Technology Company; VMware to remain independent...
Zum Hintergrund: Die Aquisition von EMC durch Dell (es wurde ja bereits im Vorfeld intensiver darüber spekuliert... wie z.B. im Wallstreet Journal) wird Kunden und Industriebeobachter-/innen die nächste Zeit beschäftigen. Aus Aktualitätsgründen nachfolgend ein Auszug der Originalmeldung von Dell. Eine weitergehende Analyse erfolgt nach Auswertung weiterer zur Verfügung stehender Informationen dann zeitnah.
Auszug aus Originalmeldung:
- "Brings together the industry’s leading innovators in digital transformation, software-defined data center, hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, mobile and security
- EMC stockholders to receive approximately $33.15 per share (based on the assumptions described below) in a combination of cash as well as tracking stock linked to a portion of EMC’s economic interest in the VMware business
- VMware to remain an independent, publicly-traded company
"Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company.
Under the terms of the agreement, EMC shareholders will receive $24.05 per share in cash in addition to tracking stock linked to a portion of EMC’s economic interest in the VMware business. Based on the estimated number of EMC shares outstanding at the close of the transaction, EMC shareholders are expected to receive approximately 0.111 shares of new tracking stock for each EMC share. Assuming, for illustrative purposes, a valuation for each share of tracking stock of $81.78, the intraday volume-weighted average price for VMware on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, EMC shareholders would receive a total combined consideration of $33.15 per EMC share and the total transaction would be valued at approximately $67 billion.
The value of the tracking stock may vary from the market price of VMware given the different characteristics and rights of the two stocks. The EMC Board of Directors approved the merger agreement and intends to recommend that stockholders of EMC approve the agreement..."
Michael S. Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake Lead Transaction to Combine Dell and EMC