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Dell’s Cash Holdings Pave Way for Buyout Talks: Chart of the Day
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Dell Inc.’s market value has increasingly become linked to its holdings of cash and money-market securities, which would explain why the personal-computer maker is considering a leveraged buyout.
As the CHART OF THE DAY shows, the investments have been equivalent to more than 50 percent of Dell’s value for the past eight months. The proportion peaked at 74 percent in October, a month before the stock dropped to its lowest price since March 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.