Subject: Re: FYI, buybacks
For this purpose, a conversion of 1500:1 for B share buybacks doesn't seem to be appropriate. Management prefers A shares for buybacks and doesn't seem to buy B shares unless prices are both cheaper (relatively) and quite cheap (in an absolute sense, perhaps to take advantage of the liquidity to buy more shares). So I would NOT assume that management would be happy to buy B shares at 729500/1500. My guess is that a notional "happy with a B buyback at that time" might be more like (say) $475 per B instead of $486.

Wouldn't you expect arbitrage of some sort to close that gap whenever it's larger than, let's say, 2%?

Elan