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Does PayPal Have a Buyer?

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Does PayPal Have a Buyer? In this episode of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rachel Warren discuss: PayPal’s offer.How Stripe gets a deal done.Why PayPal says “no.” J&J’s earnings.Uber in D.C.How Uber became the incumbent…
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  • Uber is acting like a nervous incumbent rather than a disruptor in its regulatory approach to autonomous vehicles.

    60% confidence
  • Lou Whiteman believes PayPal will reject the Stripe/Advent proposal and that shareholders would want a share price starting at $80.

    60% confidence
  • Waymo has cleared over 500,000 commercial trips every week, a figure from a few months prior that is likely higher now.

    60% confidence
  • Uber could use one-third of its bank cash to buy Lucid outright, suggesting Lucid's autonomous technology is not as close to viable as hyped.

    60% confidence
  • Under the proposal terms, Stripe and Advent would take equal stakes to run PayPal as a 50/50 joint partnership, keeping the company intact rather than breaking it up.

    60% confidence
  • Uber owns an 11.5% stake in Lucid and plans to buy thousands of its electric vehicles.

    60% confidence
  • PayPal's value lies in its $6 billion of free cash flow, and it makes sense for Advent to take it private and use that cash flow to pay down acquisition debt.

    60% confidence
  • Stripe and Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint confidential proposal to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share, valuing PayPal at over $53 billion, a 28% premium to yesterday's closing price, backed by about $50 billion in committed bank financing.

    60% confidence
  • Rachel Warren, a long-term J&J shareholder, believes the stock's drop is short-term market noise given the company's diversified revenue engine and pipeline of new blockbuster drugs.

    60% confidence

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