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There are two types of "poison pills" - flip-ins, which allow shareholders to buy at a discount, and flip-overs, which allow them to buy shares after a merger.
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Finance allah shmoop what is a poison pill O romeo
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romeo Wherefore out the ac Well if you can't have
- 00:12
me nobody can have me pill lug dead dead alright
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that's poison pill allah romeo and juliet and performed by
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your friends here and the corporate version Well it isn't
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- 00:23
all that different In fact there are really two flavors
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of poison pill flintstones chewable lt's called flip ins which
- 00:29
allow current shareholders to buy a ton more shares at
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a big discount toe where their shares are currently trading
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flippen like if the shares are at forty bucks each
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current shareholder than gets allowed to buy five shares for
- 00:42
ten bucks each for each share that they currently own
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and have owned for the last in a year About
- 00:48
that would be a flipping well this flip in process
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dilutes the company dramatically making it harder for an outside
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takeover soldier to come in and you know just buy
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the company that's a flip in the non chewable flintstone
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flavor that you have to actually swallow is called ah
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flip over which comes is a mandate from the board
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allowing current shareholders to buy the shares of the acquirer
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After the merger at a big discount it basically destroys
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enormous value in the combined company making It tastes like
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a bitter moth to ah hungry bat so you know
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he spits it out The basic idea in these poison
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pill defense strategies is to deal with hostile takeovers And
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a lot of those came during the junk bond era
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in the nineteen eighties when cheap high risk capital was
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liquid Lee easily available almost anywhere and companies felt vulnerable
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to short term quick buck wall street sharpies who looked
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great in a dark suit and usually had awesome hair
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So yeah people for details carefully watch wall street the
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first one the good one the one with michael douglas
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when he still had hair and what you don't really 00:01:54.212 --> [endTime] hear there is he said Shmoop is good yeah
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