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Vanguard Just Became the Largest Twitter (TWTR) Stock Holder. Here’s Why.
Investor Place ^ | April 14th, 2022 | Eddie Pan

Posted on 04/14/2022 3:43:19 PM PDT by shadowlands1960

The firm recently purchased an additional 12 million shares of TWTR

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is in full focus today after Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk announced an offer to buy the social media platform for $54.20 per share. Oddly enough, shares of TWTR stock closed the day down 1.7%. This is likely because Musk’s offer may not come to fruition. Twitter (TWTR) logo displayed on a smartphone screen with a hand ready to use the app Source: shutterstock.com/khak

Currently, Twitter is reportedly weighing a “poison pill” option that may discourage Musk from acquiring the company. A poison pill provision effectively makes an acquisition less attractive by allowing existing shareholders to purchase shares at less than market value. On top of this news, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — a large shareholder of the company — voiced his disapproval of the acquisition.

Prior to all this Twitter drama, however, one investment firm with over $6.67 trillion in assets under management (AUM) reported increasing its existing TWTR position. Let’s jump into the details.

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To: shadowlands1960

Prine Al-a-dickweed is a bad one. He’s 100% Muslim Brotherhood. And an enemy of MBS.


21 posted on 04/14/2022 4:11:27 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Bad choice of enemies. He’ll probably end up with his head in a basket.


22 posted on 04/14/2022 4:13:36 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

all real previous lib meltdowns too LOL


23 posted on 04/14/2022 4:15:03 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: shadowlands1960

Ah. So a filthy Saudi is a major shareholder in Twitter. This explains a lot.


24 posted on 04/14/2022 4:15:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: dynoman

Excellent point!


25 posted on 04/14/2022 4:18:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: shadowlands1960

Why would it be funny to backfire on Musk?


26 posted on 04/14/2022 4:20:20 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Seruzawa

What if Elon asked the general public to buy as many shares of Twitter as possible and ask them to vote with him.


27 posted on 04/14/2022 4:20:34 PM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015. )
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To: dynoman

Don’t these Vanguard shares technically belong to Vanguard clients....ie trusts, ETFs, etc?

No idea if that has any effect on what they call their ownership.


28 posted on 04/14/2022 4:22:03 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Jane Long

Opposite.. funny if it backfired on the board, to sell stock cheap only to have those shareholders turn around and sell it to Musk...


29 posted on 04/14/2022 4:22:38 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

Okay, THAT sounds better ;-)


30 posted on 04/14/2022 4:23:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: magua

Elon is a person to whom a billion here and a billion there are truly pocket change. The Twitter-Nazis are right to be worried. I can see him acquire it and fire the lot wholesale.


31 posted on 04/14/2022 4:24:24 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Perhaps but in all sincerity this should bring all of us to tears to know that those idiots are our future leaders.


32 posted on 04/14/2022 4:27:06 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: janetjanet998

Good one.


33 posted on 04/14/2022 4:28:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: shadowlands1960

There’s going to be a Blockbuster reaction including but not limited to Liberals.

Who knew a Saudi Prince is responsible for all the “censoring.”

The Indian CEO surely must have an “arrangement” with him.

If he doesn’t, he’s a fool


34 posted on 04/14/2022 4:29:53 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: shadowlands1960

Drive the price up. Cash out all his chips and let the price fall and pick up the pieces afterwards.


35 posted on 04/14/2022 4:36:43 PM PDT by gunnut
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I will be saddened if Elon buys twitter, and some purple haired 20 year old female who has never written a check in her life can no longer tell me what I can or can’t read or say


36 posted on 04/14/2022 4:37:17 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: shadowlands1960

I’m sure that’s part of it, but that’s billionaires wage war upon each other. They will attack each other’s interests through competition.

Vanguard, probably the winning bid, has put together a bid for Twitter, so Vanguard in its attempt to stop Musk, paid billions of dollars to buy up shares, that it might have had plans for otherwise.


37 posted on 04/14/2022 4:43:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Ask a liberal if they have a soul or do they just collect them from lives they destroy. )
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To: shadowlands1960

Is this just one Vabguard Fund called Vanguard something or is this the summation of every share Vanguard “owns” in any of the funds it runs?


38 posted on 04/14/2022 4:47:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

SpaceX Titter... I saw it first.... He is going to do it and nobody can stop him.


39 posted on 04/14/2022 4:57:59 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: shadowlands1960

Vanguard is locked at the hip with Blackrock, that corrupt combo tells you all you need to know.


40 posted on 04/14/2022 5:34:27 PM PDT by iontheball
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