Wednesday, April 27, 2005

MCI's Board Finally Passes Math 101

MCI's board finally came to its senses. After months of blowing off Qwest's pursuit of acquiring them (they had the gall to offer shareholders more money), MCI finally admitted to the world that Qwest's new offer of $30.00 a share ($16 in cash and $14.00 in stock) was more than Verizon's offer of $23.10. I'll pause now while you all digest that logic...

Heck even Verizon agrees that $30 is more than $23 (see quote from linked article below).

"The MCI board decided that their bid of $30 (per share) was higher than our bid of $23.10 (per share). That shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. 30 is higher than 23," Verizon said in the transcript.

So now Qwest is in the driver's seat. Verizon may up its offer but they won't go to $30. MCI would probably prefer a Verizon offer anyway because a combined Qwest/MCI company may drag down Qwest's already dragging stock price. Since 40% of Qwest's offer is in their stock, MCI would assuredly be happy to see Verizon get into a bidding war.

But they won't. Verizon knows that despite all of the bad press around this deal, MCI desperately wants to be acquired by them. If they were to up their offer to what they gave shareholder Carlos Slim (see article bel0w) that might close the deal.

Hawk's View: Clearly Qwest's call out to all of their employees to check between the cushions of their couch for loose change worked. They are now presenting their third and final best offer. However, despite all of that and Qwest's ability to line up private equity to balance the company out, post-merger, Verizon will walk away with this one. The Hawk still feels it's MCI's duty to take Qwest offer in the spirit of shareholder return, but alas, he does not think that will happen. Look for an offer increase from Verizon within the next two weeks and MCI's board running lovingly into their arms.

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