The pfizer CEO is looking at about a 40% raise. He can justify it by lowering the tax bill.
The ill conceived deal will go through. The way to play it as an investor is to sell put options against pfizer, about a year out.
What in the hell has the world come to.
No buy puts. Buy the option to put the shares on someone else, at a specified time and price. The shares will fall.
There is no pipeline. AZ is buying a stock escape. The CEO is motivated because he'll run a much bigger org. There will be big layoffs and the game can go on for years. He'll have a parachute.
Run for cover. Your chance to sell your AZ shares is NOW.
Just like the British to DEMAND a company protect jobs for a decade, even if there is a real compelling reason to eliminate jobs due to business conditions years down the road! Typical politicians sticking their disgusting noses in the affairs of private business.
Private? Publicly traded AND regulated. But I agree that this is dirty...one government helping a company avoid the taxes they owe to do business in our country for their tax gain. Do nay of you ever see the posts from the Brits? Americans are stupid to pay the prices that we do. BUT everyone wants to have market share here for the profits. When push comes to shove, businesses dont want to pay the poper to do business here. Before you get all riled up I will say the taxes in the US are an absolute obamanation. But like the stock market, you diversify and ride it out. But you still have to take the hard knocks when the going gets tough. Eventually there wont be enough employed people to pay those ridiculous prices. Then what? Much as I hTe to say it, gov should step in on this one. Its underhanded and greedy. Ok, now a bunch of you are going to start slinging the names...
The pfizer CEO is looking at about a 40% raise. He can justify it by lowering the tax bill.
The ill conceived deal will go through. The way to play it as an investor is to sell put options against pfizer, about a year out.
What in the hell has the world come to.
Cause he needs a fucking 40% raise???? When will any of these greedy pigs have enough???
oh puh-leeze. Pfizer has been paying its taxes all along. Besides, where's your outrage ? Go look how many companies domicile in lower tax states, for 1 reason, to avoid taxes in the higher tax state.
pfizer is just taking the ballgame internationally.
Then, you talk about pfizer being greedy? Consider this yoda: its USA Tax greed that itself that is a large part of pfizers motivation. Doncha get it yet: usa corp taxes are too high. So what do you and other geniuses want to do? You want the already bloated Govt to step and and do what? Seriously, you're motivation is your own self-interest, to preserve your paycheck..you don't give a crap about USA not getting pfizer tax $$. Just be honest with yourself. So funny that you feel personally violated that pfizer is acting in its interests yet you want the gubmint to squash it because why? Oh the poor US treasury? Take a look, usa can survive without pfizers $..the most recent tax year saw IRS bring in the MOST money in recorded history. THAT is why pfizer wants out..and why other rich folks also recently started renouncing USA citizenship.
Greed? Look first at your govt. THAT is greed.
oh puh-leeze. Pfizer has been paying its taxes all along. Besides, where's your outrage ? Go look how many companies domicile in lower tax states, for 1 reason, to avoid taxes in the higher tax state.
pfizer is just taking the ballgame internationally.
Then, you talk about pfizer being greedy? Consider this yoda: its USA Tax greed that itself that is a large part of pfizers motivation. Doncha get it yet: usa corp taxes are too high. So what do you and other geniuses want to do? You want the already bloated Govt to step and and do what? Seriously, you're motivation is your own self-interest, to preserve your paycheck..you don't give a crap about USA not getting pfizer tax $$. Just be honest with yourself. So funny that you feel personally violated that pfizer is acting in its interests yet you want the gubmint to squash it because why? Oh the poor US treasury? Take a look, usa can survive without pfizers $..the most recent tax year saw IRS bring in the MOST money in recorded history. THAT is why pfizer wants out..and why other rich folks also recently started renouncing USA citizenship.
Greed? Look first at your govt. THAT is greed.
oh puh-leeze. Pfizer has been paying its taxes all along. Besides, where's your outrage ? Go look how many companies domicile in lower tax states, for 1 reason, to avoid taxes in the higher tax state.
pfizer is just taking the ballgame internationally.
Then, you talk about pfizer being greedy? Consider this yoda: its USA Tax greed that itself that is a large part of pfizers motivation. Doncha get it yet: usa corp taxes are too high. So what do you and other geniuses want to do? You want the already bloated Govt to step and and do what? Seriously, you're motivation is your own self-interest, to preserve your paycheck..you don't give a crap about USA not getting pfizer tax $$. Just be honest with yourself. So funny that you feel personally violated that pfizer is acting in its interests yet you want the gubmint to squash it because why? Oh the poor US treasury? Take a look, usa can survive without pfizers $..the most recent tax year saw IRS bring in the MOST money in recorded history. THAT is why pfizer wants out..and why other rich folks also recently started renouncing USA citizenship.
Greed? Look first at your govt. THAT is greed.
Amen. And the record revenues don't even come close to satisfying the Feds insatiable appetite. But keep feeding Joe Sixpack meaningless sound bites about corporate greed, rich vs poor, black vs white, gay vs straight, liberal vs conservative, Wall Street vs Main Street, this vs that, us vs them, blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum, and pretty soon nobody cares, nobody knows, nobody knows enough to care or cares enough to know. That's when it all collapses into something that will make 2008 and 1929 seem like the good old days. This deal is just one of many, many signs that we are indeed on the brink. Good night, and thanks for all the fish!
Even if merger doesn't go thru, look for cuts especially on US sales force side (AZ shareholders expect something either Pfizer's money or cuts to increase share price / dividends)