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It's coming. Don't waste your time speculating when or how. We will all know when we are allowed to know.

Option1: Work hard. When it comes, take whatever happens, good or bad and be prepared for it.

Option2:Get a job elsewhere, don't stress about the IPO, hope the new company is solid and work hard.

If you are not putting in the effort anywhere, then you really should expect to be trampled on.
 






Anonymous said:
It's coming. Don't waste your time speculating when or how. We will all know when we are allowed to know.

Option1: Work hard. When it comes, take whatever happens, good or bad and be prepared for it.

Option2:Get a job elsewhere, don't stress about the IPO, hope the new company is solid and work hard.

If you are not putting in the effort anywhere, then you really should expect to be trampled on.
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It is just too late for this company. Too much debt. It could ask for a bail out but it will not get one.
 






B&L would get killed in an IPO. if a company like facebook with almost infinite future growth loses more than 50% after the open, what do you think will happen to B&L stock. everyone would sell on the open and any stock employees got would be worthless by the time you tried to cash them in.

B&L will be sold at a paper loss after warburg sucks enough money out to make the time and energy worth while. They will settle with only making a couple billion over 5 years instead of doubling their money in a year like they were thinking in 2007 before the financial collapse.
 






We will be owned by new management in 6 months. Just keep yourself from getting pegged with metrics and make sure you don't get put on the disgruntled employee list. Take as much time off as you can without it looking like you are a slacker.

Don't give your best effort until the new management comes in. If you save your energies now and then hit the ground running when the new management comes in you will look like a star.
 












If you are trying to sell something you have to generate at least the illusion that others are interested in it. If no one else wants to buy it the asking price will be really low. By generating a media freezy that B+L is thinking of an IPO B+L looks like a company that at least the IPO market is willing to buy. This might then attract the big companies that then think B+L is a potential buy as it is ready to go for an IPO.

B+L may never file for an IPO. It may just be a play to generate interest for potential buyers.

I am trying to sell my house. A couple comes in that is on the fence. $150,000 asking price. My realitor tells them that there is another couple that came in and commented on how adorable the house is and that it is their dream home.

B+L is no ones dream. But maybe if you use enough financial psychology you can convince the big high stakes pharma companies that the price is right for a dream company like B+L.
 






keep dreaming.

it's a machine that generates revenue and provides jobs, especially high paying ones to top execs. Warburg sucks out the cash. They make a nice return but they aren't selling this thing at the multiplier they once thought possible. inspire collapsed in their arms and they got out for 2xs what they put in, but lost out on the massive pay day they thought they had coming.
same holds true for B&L. once upon a time in 2007 they thought they were buying this at a bargain after the recall and would have a quick flip.
no quick flip and no multiplier in their future. Will sell for what they paid and whatever they sucked out in the meantime and that equals a very nice annual return but they are not going to knock this out of the park. Billions of debt. Billion in revenue. net profit unknown since it is private... what would you pay.
a few billion maybe... that's enough to get out from under the debt. maybe worth while to a pfizer or another large pharma but pfizer will never touch B&L due to the off label. Alcon and allergan don't need the competing products. very limited market = low demand and low price.
It's a dog with fleas. Gordon Gecko wouldn't touch this sale.
 






B+L may have floated the IPO rumor that the Wall street journal picked up and gave their source as people who know the companies thinking (B+L itself?, wifes of B+L execs?). The filing for the IPO was to happen by the end of the summer. Did not happen. All smoke no action.

High paying salaries for executives is really all this company will be good for in the future. Who ever gave the 3.2 billion to B+L to pay for the debt could be the big losers in all this.
 






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