The sum total of the worth of a company’s individual assets.
Gordon is a vulture investor who owns a small lizard that he licensed to GEICO for their commercials. He makes his money by buying financially distressed companies and selling off their various departments. He recently bought Jenga Corp., which manufactures guns and butter, for $10 million.
Gordon’s research showed that, after churning the cream, Jenga had been pumping it into the gun molds, making gun-shaped pats of butter.
He realized that the breakup value of Jenga was more than twice his investment by selling the dairy-related assets to a local farmer for $500,000, and the gun molds to Smith & Wesson Corp. for $25 million.
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rare in pac-man but when they do happen there exists a whole cadre of strategies
behind defending them at least from the company's perspective being taken over
there and pac-man defense is inarguably the best named strategy of all of
them in essence what happens when we'll say an angry competitor let's call him
blinky Inc tries to buy an angrier competitor let's call them inky inc.
well blinky would be buying shares of inky in the open marketplace filing to [Blinky and inky appear]
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Directors and make a takeover happen well in a Pac Man defense as blinky is
snarfing up shares of inky, inky buys shares of blinky sort of turning the
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