Post #4981 by Engr27 on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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“Our experience has been that pro rata portions of truly outstanding businesses, sometimes sell in the securities markets at very large discounts from the prices they would command in negotiated transactions involving entire companies.

That's an interesting way of saying that you pay a premium to the market cap when acquiring the entire business.

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