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Warren Buffet disclosed on Saturday that his company now owns about 9.5% of the video game company, which is in a state of decline.
On May 7, Warren Buffet spoke during an interview in Omaha, Neb. In this file photo, a person is standing.
During the annual shareholder meeting, Warren Buffet said that he had raised his conglomerate's stake in the company from 2% to 9.5%.
If the acquisition fails to win regulatory approval, he didn't want anyone to blame the investment managers, so he made it clear it was his own bet.
It wasn't necessary for him to make public his deal arbitrage play, as he said it used to be.
Microsoft announced in January that it was going to acquire the video-game publisher for roughly 69 billion dollars, making it the third-largest video-game company by revenue.
The shares closed at $75.60.
In October and November of last year, one of the investment managers of the company bought about 14.7 million shares for an average price of $77 per share, according to a February letter from the office of Warren Buffet. The investment was made without prior knowledge of the Microsoft deal.
Last year, the largest video game company in the country faced allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued the company in July, accusing executives of engaging in a frat boy culture and denying promotions to female employees. After the lawsuit was announced, the shares of the company fell 27%, and then plunged again in November after it was reported that CEO Bobby Kotick knew of sexual harassment at the company for years.
The proposed acquisition is facing antitrust scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, but it is expected to close in 2023.
$116 billion. According to a real-time wealth tracker by Forbes, he is the sixth-richest person in the world.
There are lack of good investing targets.
Microsoft will be the 3rd largest gaming company.
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