The morning after
All eyes are on Yahoo! shares today, to see what investors make of Microsoft's decision not to persist with its attempt to buy it.
Yahoo!'s shares closed at $28.67 on Friday and in pre-market trading dropped down to around $23, opening at $23.02. They were more like $19 just before Microsoft made its unsolicited bid at the end of January.
This implies that it must have done something right in the three months that it's been resisting Microsoft's advances. However, it has to improve to the tune of ten dollars a share further to even equal the amount Microsoft was prepared to pay for it, something shareholders won't be shy about reminding the Yahoo! board.
We've added Yahoo! to the list as the fun is bound to continue. We also added the FTSE 100 to the list of markets.
| Company | Listing | Share Price 28/3/08 | Share Price 2/4/08 | Share Price 18/4/08 | Share Price 5/5/08* | 17-day change* | Market cap (bn) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | AMD | 5.91 | 6.19 | 6.11 | 6.16 | 0.8% | 3.73 |
| Apple | AAPL | 143.01 | 147.49 | 161.04 | 181.89 | 11.5% | 160.63 |
| Avnet | AVT | 32.62 | 33.67 | 27.54 | 27.59 | 0.2% | 4.15 |
| Dell | DELL | 19.61 | 19.95 | 19.47 | 19.24 | -1.2% | 39.29 |
| GOOG | 438.08 | 465.7 | 539.41 | 596.61 | 9.6% | 187.68 | |
| HP | HPQ | 46.09 | 47.23 | 48.18 | 48.36 | 0.4% | 119.22 |
| IBM | IBM | 114.57 | 114.61 | 124.40 | 123.18 | -1% | 169.19 |
| Ingram Micro |
IM | 15.59 | 16.00 | 16.81 | 17.32 | 2.9% | 2.91 |
| Intel | INTC | 20.79 | 21.85 | 22.55 | 23.37 | 3.5% | 133.86 |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 27.91 | 29.16 | 30.00 | 29.93 | -0.2% | 278.76 |
| NVIDIA | NVDA | 19.68 | 20.36 | 19.02 | 22.47 |
15.4% | 12.47 |
| Tech Data |
TECD | 32.88 | 32.66 | 33.39 | 34.79 | 4% | 1.84 |
| Yahoo! |
YHOO | - | - | - | 23.02 | NA | 31.68 |
| Dow | .DJI | 12216.40 | 12608.92 | 12849.36 | 12999.83 | 1.2% | NA |
| NASDAQ | .IXIC | 2261.18 | 2361.40 | 2402.97 | 2470.21 | 2.7% | NA |
| FTSE 100 | .FTSE | - |
- |
- |
6215.5 | NA | NA |
*All prices are those at close of trading on the date specified, except today when we have quoted prices and market caps at 14:30 GMT
