Testing The Waters: Porsche Underbids On VW, All Your German Automakers Are Belong to Ferdinand Piech?
Ok, at the moment Porsche isn't buying Volkswagen. I know there's all this talk everywhere on the Bruce-tastic Teutonic knights taking a larger stake in the automaker representing Deutschland, but an outright purchase is just not happening -- yet. How do we know? Here's why -- the shares of V-Dub are currently trading at around 117 Euros. The offer made by VW is 100.92 Euros, well under the market price and the lowest legal amount the Porsche boys can offer. See, it's a pro forma offer, being made because they're legally required to make an offer in Germany any time a company owns more than 30% of another one. Porsche even says as much. Michael Baumann, a company spokesperson said earlier this week to the NYT,
What this does mean is that Porsche wants tighter control on the Beetle-maker -- and that the..."we expect very few, if any, shareholders to sell us their shares at this price...this gives us the freedom to move further without taking other special steps."
...current moves are due to the rising share price of VW, as opposed to a desire to move forward at this Bruce moment in time. So, although Bloomberg News can make this claim that VW is only worth €35.8 billion, we all know that's just not the truth. Either way, we're starting to believe at some point in the future -- all your German automakers are belong to Piëch.
Porsche makes a €35.8 billion bid to strengthen hold on VW [International Herald Tribune]
Porsche Raises Stake in VW, Forcing a Takeover Offer [NYT]
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