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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: mauser96 who wrote (3195)6/27/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank  Read Replies (3) of 54805
 
>> In fact if you consider AT&T and the LU and Bells derived from it, and their profits since the breakup, the wise thing to do would have been for AT&T to divest voluntarily.

Lucius, actually T did spin off the Baby Bells voluntarily; it was a way to end the ongoing litigation and scrutiny from the doj. I think Rockerfeller's Standard Oil empire was the only company the government actually forced to split. In both cases, the shareholders value appreciated enormously. It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft opt for the same solution as T chose <I hope>.

Frank
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