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...pick a date and say this is the way things should have gone," says James Goss, media analyst at Barrington Research. "Things were evolving." Then, paying off debt was critical, and something had to go. Parsons chose the troubled music division. Still, says Larry Haverty, money manager at Gabelli Asset Management, the value of the division today is $2 billion higher than the $2.6 billion it was sold for. If the stock doesn't jump soon, other shareholders say they'll welcome Icahn's push...
Some mutual funds trade in pairs, though their performance has been spotty. The Laudus Rosenberg, GMA Gabelli and Franklin U.S. long-short funds and Phoenix Market Neutral sometimes give the pairs game a spin. But, says Dan McNeela, an analyst at the fund-research firm Morningstar, "these kinds of funds tend to have above-average expenses...
...combination that has made it one of the country's most profitable cable networks. The dissidents believe that BET could be worth almost 50% more than Johnson is offering. "It's such a fabulous company that I see Johnson's offer as nothing more than preliminary," says Mario Gabelli, a high-profile media investor who complained to the Securities and Exchange Commission; other holders sued BET directly...
...Malone, a Time Warner rival whose Turner stake gives him effective veto power over a deal. But by Sunday, as TIME went to press, Levin and Turner were tantalizingly close to sealing an agreement to create the world's largest media company. "For Levin it's brilliant," says Mario Gabelli, whose Gabelli Funds hold some 5 million shares of Time Warner...
...some observers wonder what the lure is for Turner. "Why should he become vice chairman of a public company?" asks Mario Gabelli, whose Gabelli Funds owns a big wad of Time Warner stock. "To get dividends on his stock? I just don't see it. Sure, he's a poor billionaire--but he has run his own show for 20 years. It's got to be something else. I'd love to know what they're offering him, sotto voce...