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Taking money off the table

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135 points holman | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 18:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mason55 ◴[30 Oct 25 19:38 UTC] No.45764374[source]▶
A 10% tender offer isn't really an interesting discussion. You should take definitely take 10% off the table unless you're already pretty wealthy.

The interesting discussion is how much you should take off the table if the offer is uncapped.

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vlucas ◴[30 Oct 25 19:53 UTC] No.45764526[source]▶
100% correct. Taking 10% away to remove downside risk of the remaining 90% is an absolute no-brainer, especially if it is a meaningful sum of money to you.
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1. defen ◴[30 Oct 25 21:12 UTC] No.45765435[source]▶
Indeed; I can't imagine a world where 11% higher gains makes a significant difference. Either that 11% is a large number in an absolute sense, in which case the 89% you retained is also VERY large; or it's not that big of an absolute number and doesn't matter that much anyway.