What happens to them in a mostly cash deal?
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I'll take $70 no risk. For QCOM to get there on their own, they need 1) no royalty changes from Taiwan and South Korea, 2) to close NXP deal and generate cost synergies, 3) win U.S. FTC suit, 4) favorably settle with Apple, 5) hope Samsung, Huawei, Xioami, and Apple do not use their own modem or applications processor and abandon the Qualcomm integrated solution. Highly unlikely QCOM "runs the table" on all the above risks.
Ask people who were in infrastructure what happened to their stock options.
If vested, will be converted to either cash or AVGO stock.
What happens depends on what happens to your job. You could be cashed out of unvested or converted. Depends what your employment status is.
No you will get AVGO shares
Just a guess, but an RSU is a restricted stock unit, not an imaginary stock unit. Qualcomm or whoever acquires its liabilities is liable for such costs. The restriction is in your ability to sell. It's not an option.
Better think about your vested ones and sell them when you getting this high price, the deal is not going to happen and stock is going to crash to 55 again from where it will take 3 years to come up. And that too is uncertain depending upon AAPL and NXPI whether it will ever come up.
What happened in other similar deals?
I got the same question, do they qualify as outstanding share ? If yes, it shall be treated same way as vested.