http://paymentweek.com/2014-8-27-amazon-buys-twitch-is-valve-next-5449/
noooh...
unless amazon has $infinite+1 million i don't think that's going to happen
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Don't think it will happen, considering they just made a large purches, and besides vavl is much bigger then twitch.If this did happen i will be jumping ship fast.
Lol don't see this happening at all. Valve is a giant in it's own right and I can't see how this would be beneficial for either party. That article is pointless. If that counts as a rumour here's one for you; Amazon might buy Microsoft. Discuss.
Wouldn't Amazon face anti trust competition lawsuits if this happened?
I thought they would move quite a lot of games on there marketplace. A lot of people who i know have crappy connections so they turn to Amazon to get physical copy's of their games. But i don't know there market percentage... Its still highly unlikely that Amazon would buy steam anyway.
it's kinda hard to find good numbers
- Valve:
- 2012 -> equity: ~3 billion total assets ??
- Amazon:
- 2012 -> equity: ~8 billion total assets: ~35 billion
- 2013 -> equity: ~10 billion total assets: ~40 billion
I think that Valve has grown faster then Amazon since 2012, but Amazon has a better strategical position, especially if we loose the fight for net neutrality. Valve might be the next target of the ISP data-transport protection-ratchet. In that case Amazon might become a necessary evil, because having the leverage of a secondary method to reach customers would allow them to negotiate from a position of strength.
They could co-op without having a buy-out. Amazon has been losing money recently, if I'm not mistaken, so I really doubt that they have enough money to be able to buy even a majority of Valve stocks. If they team up though, they would be able to take advantage of each other in that Valve could use leverage with ISPs and Amazon could integrate sales with Steam or some shit.
amazon is a fortune 100 company. they have the financial means to acquire Valve easily.
amazon has a market capitalisation of $156 billion (today), i.e. the market value of their equity (share price of 339 X 462 million shares). http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AMZN:US (scroll down the table).
The NY Times estimated the value of Gabe Newell's stake in Valve to be around $1.5 billion or so and he owns half the company or thereabouts. That was in 2012. This is a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than amazon.
it would be trivial for them to finance the acquisition of a company like Valve. Now, would they want to, would valve agree, what would the rationale be, is there any substance to these rumours... those are questions worth considering if you have time on your hands.
At the end of June 2014, before acquiring Twitch for a little under a billion in cash, Amazon had $5 billion in cash and another $2.9 billion in marketable securities (i.e. securities you can turn into cash or repo for financing very easily).*
Also, amazon has stock, so they could do a very large transaction if they needed to using a stock + cash deal, but that would be dilutive to their equity (say a deal 5x times the estimated size of Valve).
Don't worry!
I've read the article in the OP, it doesn't even seem to be a rumour at this stage. just a blogger fantasising about the future.
* Source: Amazon's Form 10-Q filings with the SEC. i.e. their quarterly financial statements. Look at their balance sheet.
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