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0 pointscolejohnson664y ago0 comments

Owning stock, on its own, is not the same as buying a company

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worker_person4y ago· 1 in thread

If you own a controlling percentage. Then yes it is. That is how you buy/control a publicly traded company.

You can buy 100% of shares and take it private, but that's overkill for what Microsoft wanted.

Hence why I said “on its own”

lmao

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