Broadcom ar putea plăti aproximativ 60 de miliarde de dolari pentru VMware cu anunțul de joi

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Chip maker titan

Broadcom

may announce a deal to purchase software company

VMware

for about $60 billion on Thursday, Wall Street Journal raportate.

The two sides are working on a cash and stock deal at about $140-a-share, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the talks. That would be a 50% premium to

VMware
'S
(ticker: VMW) share level on Friday, before news of the deal broke. The price isn’t yet set and the talks could still fall apart, according to the report.

S-a mai spus

Broadcom

(AVGO) is talking to banks about financing the deal with a $40 billion debt package.

Both companies were approached after hours for comment.

The acquisition would be one of the biggest of the year so far and larger than Elon Musk’s proposed $44 billion bid to take social media site

Twitter

(TWTR) private.

Microsoft

(MSFT) has agreed to buy videogame company

Activision Blizzard

(ATVI) for about $75 billion.

Still, the pace of fuziuni si achizitii has slowed this year as stock prices plummeted, with the S&P 500 now on the brink of a bear market.

VMware rose 1% in after hours trading Tuesday to $117.20. Broadcom, with a market capitalization of more than $200 billion, gained 0.6% to $527.21.

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