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New financials show family may have gotten a great deal...
(old news - 09:04AM Friday Jul 06 2007)
tags: business · cable · Cablevision
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Just when the Dolan family seemed all set to take Cablevision private in a $36 a share, $10.5 billion deal, Newsday reports the company was forced to reveal additional financial forecasts that indicate the company could soon be far more profitable than expected. Analysts think the company's stock could soar past $100 a share, so investors spent yesterday gobbling up stock (currently $37.73). The company may now have to boost their offering price to gain shareholder approval.

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tmc8080

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wishful thinking

Not even a dot bomb bubble of 1999 put cablevision's stock at $100 per share. Aside from kicking all of the customers off the $29.95 triple play and tripling everyone's cable bill.. (which would rightly so put the stock at $1 per share, vs $100 per share) I really don't see how they get to $100 per share? Do they have a triple play iPhone they didn't tell anyone about? Are they deploying footprint wide wifi, what is this magic that will propel them to $100?
Patents to screw Verizon (they way Verizon is screwing Vonage) over maybe? Hmm, that would be maybe the only thing that could do it..
permalink · 2007-07-06 10:20:17 · Print · Reply to this

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Is it worth it?

Have u seen his house i think the house is worth more than the company lol.
permalink · 2007-07-06 13:25:24 · Reply to this

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Re: wishful thinking

The answer is in the Newsday article - did you read it?
permalink · 2007-07-06 17:11:43 · Reply to this
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Re: wishful thinking

said by dbmaven See Profile :

The answer is in the Newsday article - did you read it?
The answer is NOT in the article, unless your hinting at the potential of a bidding war.. which is about as likely as the Unites States pulling out of Iraq tomorrow. The assets in question (if you've been keeping up) are JUST for the cable company.. not rainbow networks (channels), msg, nicks, and the kit-n-kaboodle.. just the cable system, customer base, hard cable assets (coax, head-ends, nodes, plant and regional offices) and rights of way and business broadband unit lightpath. When it comes down to it, there is a maximum price per subscriber a cable system is worth.. which is how cable companies are bought and sold.. (see adelphia meltdown) AND CABLEVISION ISN'T WORTH THAT MUCH.

Whoever ends up with cablevision will have to upgade to docsis 3 and to deal with a high footprint overlap of their competitor: Verizon. A company with DEEP pockets (despite crying poor when it comes to tv franchises).
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Re: wishful thinking

The specific answers as to why the cable business is worth much more most certainly are in the article:
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Cablevision is "going to generate a lot more cash than anybody ever imagined," Moffett said in an interview. "That being the case, it's worth a hell of a lot more than anybody thought."
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Moffett said the company's revenues are soaring while capital expenses are dropping. The company said in its proxy that capital spending will fall from 14.6 percent of revenues this year to 6 percent of revenues by 2011.
When a business generates significantly more free cash flow than it has in the past, especially when capital spending will decline by more than half, there's significantly more "shareholder value" - even with the standard disclaimers about forward looking statements.

The DOCSIS 3 upgrades are already factored in to the capital plans (since they're projecting 3-4 years out).
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permalink · 2007-07-08 00:31:06 · Print · Reply to this

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Screw CV

One of the best ripoffs going...
permalink · 2007-07-06 23:09:56 · Reply to this

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One of the best ripoffs going...
Along with the most areas they service.
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