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arbitragy

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    Comment #27827962

    These programs are absolute cash cows for universities. One of the primary reasons that tuition has considerably outpaced inflation is government guaranteed loans. Two of the prima…

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    Comment #27620905

    1.7m shares of Paypal at .001 is worth 5B at the current share price of 295. Obviously debatable whether you can mark shares of your own company / PE firm sponsor equity / etc at n…

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    Comment #17447173

    Deal wont close. DVMT is a tracker for VMW at 1.015:1. It should trade at 164.4 (given a 162 price for VMW). Offer is ~1/3rd in cash that Michael Dell isn't even paying for, it is …

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    Comment #17437442

    Couldn't they just ship cars overseas? Or wait until the end of June to ship them?

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    Comment #17281190

    In spite of all the controversy, Facebook is at all-time highs. It will be interesting to see whether Facebook is still the dominant social networking platform in 5, 10, or 25 year…

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    Comment #17169919

    They are for sale : )

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    Comment #17169817

    Well said.

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    Comment #17169808

    My gut tells me Europe will use GDPR to further attack (and fine) large US tech companies (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.). Everybody is likely breaking these sorts of laws in some …

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    Comment #17146625

    Similar to my comment below, but Netflix has an EV of 155b relative to ~175b for Disney. So Netflix is smaller but the gap has narrowed considerably. I'd recommend shorting Netflix…

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    Comment #17146589

    Comcast has an EV (Enterprise value: Debt + Equity or the 'real' acquisition value of the business) of ~210b versus ~155b for Netflix.