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Neil Macker
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Fox Agrees to Preliminary Takeover Bid of Sky; Deal Values Sky at $23 Billion

Sky announced on Dec. 9 that the company agreed in principle to a preliminary takeover bid from Twenty-First Century Fox for the 61% of the firm not already owned by Fox. The preliminary offer of GBP 10.75 in cash would value Sky at about GBP 18.5 billion ($23 billion), a 36% premium to closing price on Dec. 8. The offer price is only a 6% premium to our fair value estimate of GBP 10.10 for Sky, which we viewed as undervalued prior to the announcement, so Fox appears to be paying a reasonable pr...
Underlying
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. Class A

Twenty-First Century Fox is a media and entertainment company with operations in the following segments: Cable Network Programming, which consists of the production and licensing of programming distributed primarily through cable television systems and others; Television, which consists of the broadcasting of network programming and the operation of power broadcast television stations; Filmed Entertainment, which consists of the production and acquisition of live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in all formats in all entertainment media worldwide, and the production and licensing of television programming worldwide; and Other, Corporate and Eliminations.

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Neil Macker

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