SoftBank will try to buy shares of Uber at a 30 percent discount
https://www.recode.net/2017/11/27/16707900/softbank-will-try-and-buy-shares-of-uber-at-a-30-percent-discount
SoftBank is preparing to buy shares of Uber at a price that values Uber at only $48 billion, a steep 30 percent discount rate for ownership in the company, which was last valued at almost $70 billion.
That’s in line with what Uber investors were expecting; Recode reported this weekend that the price could be as low as $48 billion or as high as $52 billion. The $48 billion price, confirmed by a person with knowledge of the figure, will however raise concerns about whether the secondary sale will succeed — SoftBank needs to accumulate 14 percent of the company’s shares to trigger the so-called “tender offer.”