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Fool Video: What Is Yahoo! Really Worth?

By Mac Greer – Updated Apr 5, 2017 at 10:06PM

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NASDAQ: MSFT

Microsoft Corporation

Market Cap

$1,797B

Today's Change

(-1.27%) -$3.06

Current Price

$237.92

Price as of September 23, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET

Is Microsoft's offer too low, too high, or just right?

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) has rejected Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) buyout offer of $31 a share, and Microsoft has called Yahoo's $40-per-share counteroffer "absurdly high." On paper, Yahoo! sports a $41 billion market capitalization -- chump change next to Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) $163 billion market cap, but five times the market cap of Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU). And Yahoo!'s market cap still exceeds the market caps of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY). But what is Yahoo! really worth? Motley Fool online managing editor LouAnn DiCosmo goes looking for answers in this installment of "Fool Video."

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Amazon.com and eBay are Stock Advisor recommendations. Yahoo! is a former Stock Advisor pick. Baidu is a selection in the Rule Breakers growth stock newsletter service. Microsoft is an Inside Value recommendation. Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available to all of our services.

Lou owns shares of Yahoo! and Microsoft. Mac owns shares of Baidu. Tim Hanson, Bill Mann, and Bill Barker don't own any of the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Stocks Mentioned

Microsoft Corporation

MSFT

$237.92 (-1.27%) $-3.06

Alphabet Inc.

GOOGL

$98.74 (-1.40%) $-1.40

Amazon.com, Inc.

AMZN

$113.78 (-3.01%) $-3.53

Baidu, Inc.

BIDU

$118.75 (-0.06%) $0.07

eBay Inc.

EBAY

$38.19 (-0.29%) $0.11

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