From Seeking Alpha...
*The management team at AT&T decided, after months of negotiations, to sell anime streaming service
Crunchyroll to Sony.
*This move will help the firm pay down debt, but it's a massive mistake for the firm strategically.
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* Not only does it weaken the company's shift to streaming, it drastically undervalues the platform.
No person and no firm is perfect. They all make mistakes. Some are forgivable. Others are just outright painful and illustrate a significant misunderstanding of market potential. It’s in this second group that AT&T (T) falls in regarding its management team’s decision to divest of its stake over anime streaming service Crunchyroll. Despite bringing in a nice amount of cash and the service itself comprising a small piece of AT&T’s overall value, the company basically decided to give away the firm for a steep discount to what it should be priced at."
Sounds about right considering our leadership. Buy companies at a premium to their value, then sell the company at a discount to its value. At least in this case, management didn't completely ruin the company before unloading it.