Skydance's market value trails Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount…

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVariety reports that the newly merged Skydance Corp. is worth less than half of what Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount were worth separately.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo today's question: if you win the yearlong fight and everyone says you overpaid, did you actually win?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNo, and I'm delighted. A man wins a year-long fight, and the prize is a public wince. That's the best thing I've seen all week.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI say he won.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI once won a meat raffle in Doncaster, and the ham was frankly a bad ham, but I still carried it home like a trophy.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA bad ham.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSee, that's the problem. You carried it home, Brock. Nobody asked what the ham cost him, which is exactly what investors are asking now.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFair, but I'm switching sides, because Dale just agreed with me about the ham and I can't be on his team. I'll say he lost, and the ham was never the point.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou switched because he agreed with you.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistYes, and I'd do it again. Now what's the actual number on this thing, Hank? Just the number.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe number is that it's worth less than half of the seventy-eight billion dollars the two companies were worth combined.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy verdict is he won, he lost, and I still want the ham.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHands up if winning feels like losing. That's all three of us, and nothing is settled.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, vote now: did he win or overpay? Type W or O.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Dale, the ham is worth more than the company, so I'm keeping it.