But if you’re dead set on buying shares of TWTR despite all the uncertainty, here’s what you need to know. There aren’t many good reasons for long-term investors to buy shares of Twitter right now, beyond speculating on the failure of Musk’s acquisition deal, or possibly merger arbitrage. With each passing week, the deal looks less likely to reach fruition. In the months since then, Musk and Twitter’s board have sparred publicly over the terms of the deal. Musk’s Twitter deal is the second-largest buyout in history, after the 2007 sale of Energy Future Holdings for $45 (formerly known as TXU Corporation) by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.In late April, Elon Musk, the mercurial chief executive officer of Tesla, Inc ( TSLA), reached a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take it private at $54.20 per share in cash. POLL: Do You Think States Should Suspend Their Gas Taxes?įind: From Doge to Dorsey: Reactions to Elon Musk Buying Twitter

Investors who take the tender offer will be cashed out for the value of the shares at the time when privatization goes through, so if prices go down, new traders could stand to lose money.

This might mean a nice payday for those who were already invested but, more significantly, a possible loss for those buying today at $54.20. Once the company is taken private, anyone with share equities will be paid out with a tender offer. After registering, simply search for Twitter’s ticker symbol, $TWTR, to begin buying. However, it could take a few (potentially volatile) weeks until the company is delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.Īnyone interested in becoming a Twitter shareholder can set up a brokerage account to which they can link a checking account to buy and sell stock. Once Twitter goes private, potential investors will not be able to buy shares. Until the company has been granted regulatory approval and is taken private, no immediate changes to the functionality of the website will happen and anyone can buy shares of the social media platform, using any brokerage firm. The Twitter sale is a near-certainty, but it won’t be finalized right away. After originally resisting Musk’s potential hostile takeover bid by adopting a “poison pill” defense, Twitter’s board eventually relented and has agreed to his best offer purchase of $44 billion, equivalent to $54.20 per share. Musk - a Twitter user with over 85 million followers - began acquiring stock in January and announced his intention of buying the platform on April 14, having already owned 10% of the website.

The good news for intrigued investors is that there is still time to buy stock in Twitter before it becomes a private corporation.įind: Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter for ‘Premium’ Price of $54.20 Per Share It is not every day that the world’s richest man buys a product that is used by over 200 million people a day. Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/Shutterstock / Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/ShutterstockĬhances are you won’t have to look hard to find news about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter today on your news feed.

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