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Yawn. Broken records. Saying the same thing over and over.
@14d+1jh3gkdh8, thanks for that insightful link. If you meant to suggest private equity as a likely buyer of SAS, I believe you are right on target.
The SAS Executive Team could perform all the steps toward an IPO, only to see private equity make an offer at the last minute for $1 more per share.
Or SAS could complete an IPO, and then see private equity buy it on the open market.
Either way, a slowly declining revenue stream with a bloated workforce that can be easily "right-sized" is exactly the sort of company they buy.
https://youtu.be/v1-uTIN8zUQ?si=LChARxgyy1nfYtzB
The First Amendment protects free speech in public places. This isn’t a public place.
The owners of this site are running a private business. Their business is based on comments related to layoffs. So they have every right to restrict comments to those topics.
Moreover, they have no obligation to provide you a forum for your politics. They have no obligation to provide you anything at all, because you’re not paying them.
This is a useful site that can help people, if we stay on topic.
Or not everyone agrees with YOUR narrative
Given that the newest posting has disappeared, it certainly seems like you’re suppressing 1st amendment protected free speech on this platform. That’s a thing of the past with the regime change. Elon is not letting it happen again.
“…market goes up and down daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, regardless of what party is in power!”
Correct. We don’t know how long the markets will stay up.
But when the CEO of JP Morgan says bankers are “dancing in the streets”, he has a reason. He supported the Democrats — but he expects the Republicans to be good for business.
As long as the markets stay up, SAS has a favorable window for an IPO — or a private sale.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-says-bankers-dancing-110037840.html
"The new Administration and Congress are generally expected to reduce taxes and regulation. "
That means the billionaires will get richer and lay off even more people, consumer protection will be gone, and Americans will get d-mber and further behind some competitive countries (some of whom are adversaries) when Dept. of Education is abolished under the new administration, among other things.
Here's the thing....market goes up and down daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, regardless of what party is in power!
The new Administration and Congress are generally expected to reduce taxes and regulation. This creates more favorable business conditions for deals of all kinds -- mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs. So, anyone trying to sell their company got the election results they wanted.
Of course there's no guarantee that markets will stay up. But as long as they do, SAS has a favorable window to proceed with their IPO -- while hoping that a private buyer makes a better offer.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bankers-hope-ipo-revival-2025-110359968.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-says-bankers-dancing-110037840.html
@ma+1jh3gkdh8 rational? LOL
Or not everyone agrees with YOUR narrative hence your need to claim they are trying to control the narrative. Weak minded…
Looks like someone is trying to poison the well with a false-flag operation. An attempt to make any rational discussion here about layoffs, the possibility for and instances of them, difficult? Maybe an effort from someone who is trying to control the narrative.
“ Republican victories are good for financial markets”
Show me the numbers. That doesn’t quite hold true. At times yes. At times no.
Yeah! Holy sh--e … SAS conceived and built MVA not long after Regan declared “It’s morning in America again” … maybe there’s hope for Viya+ ?
Who cares about SAS these days? The rest of the world looks at utter disbelief at you and your president-elect. Go take a swim in the gulf of America and cool off before invading Canada and Greenland. Fu-k you, Trump voters.
IPO 2025? Anybody's guess.
Meanwhile at SAS the lights are on, the band is playing. Drink up in the warm comfy lounge. Raise your glasses because he pipeline is full! Increase Viya and AI to full sustained throttle! Interesting similarities to the Titanic ....
These Wall Street bankers are not telling him how to run his business, but how to sell it.
“ I guess now he does!”
I think he’ll be just fine :)
Maybe when you build a 3 billion dollar company you can make different choice for yourself.
Post from TheLayoff.com
I guess now he does!
"I don't need some 20 something year old Wall Street banker telling me how to run my business"...I recall JG once said that, so no wonder he wasn't keen to be there.
The founders are old. Do you really expect them to go prance around NYC on a fact finding mission? If I were them, I wouldn't have gone either. Let me know when it's time and then I'll go fly up there for the real show. Until then, I'll let the people I hired to do the work and stand out in the cold for photo ops.
This visit is part hype and part due diligence. One step in the IPO process is deciding whether to list stock on NYSE or NASDAQ. Executive management makes that decision.
Executive management also makes presentations in the IPO roadshow, traveling around the country to attract investors. The people in that photo will do a lot of that work.
Normally, owners would be heavily involved in the IPO process. But given their ages, it’s reasonable to delegate as much as they can.
They look like tourists visiting NYSE.
Without the presence of the founders, this is really just hype.
“ Wow, what a load of BS posturing!”
The irony is thick…
Wow, what a load of BS posturing!
If you are planning to IPO, you talk with both NYSE and NASDAQ, both to publicize the IPO, and to learn which exchange is best for you.
SAS has not yet pulled the trigger, but is doing all things necessary to pull it this year.
Should soften the blow of low raises and bonuses if revenue targets are missed.
Marketing hype intended to promote awareness of an IPO?. Interesting that the two founders are not in the photo.
They sure are going through the motions with gusto this time! Maybe 2025 is the year!
Looks promising!