The company also said it was buying back $2 billion in shares, on top of recent share repurchases totaling $2.6 billion, and it was raising its dividend by 5 cents, to 45 cents a year.
After the close of the deal, Yahoo shareholders will still own shares in what is left of the company, essentially an investment fund with two holdings: a 15percentt stake, worth about $32 billion based on its recent share price, in the Chinese internet company Alibaba; and a 35.5percentt stake, worth about $8.7 billion, in Yahoo Japan.
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Imagination Technologies will drop out of the FTSE 250 at the market close on Friday after recent share price weakness, particularly since June's sale of a 9.3% stake for £52m by Intel.
Following this week's earnings release, Apple shares (NASDAQ AAPL) briefly traded at $207.05, which values the company sightly over $1 trillion based on the most recent share count of July 20.
The hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, who is now long on Netflix, called the recent share offering "irritating".
That represents a 42percentt premium on Ikyu's most recent share price, and it means Yahoo Japan could pay just over 100 billion JPY for the transaction.
Advanced Micro Devices ' recent share gains on Intel have not convinced Wall Street that this David can take on its Goliath archrival, but that hasn't stopped investors and some analysts from rooting for the underdog.
Collins Stewart has issued a sell note on the basis that the recent share price revival has got ahead of itself, although it said the recent cash call has eased worries about covenant breaches.
Burberry is down 46p at £15.54, taking the wooden spoon from BP after analysts at RBS downgraded the luxury goods group, saying: We downgrade Burberry to hold from buy purely on the back of the recent share price move resulting in a less than 10% upside to our 1700p target price.
