Shuli Ren, Columnist

SoftBank's Long Goodbye

The Japanese conglomerate is investing in all the hot tech firms. Why isn't Son's own stock feeling the love?

October 9, 2017 at 7:00 PM UTC

Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. A former investment banker, she was a markets reporter for Barron’s. She is a CFA charterholder.

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From Uber Technologies Inc. to Ola and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., SoftBank Group Corp. is investing in all the hot unicorns. But why aren't Masayoshi Son's own shares feeling the love?

The combined market value of the stakes in publicly listed companies that SoftBank holds has reached 19.2 trillion yen ($170.5 billion), a 90 percent premium to the Japanese technology conglomerate's own market capitalization.