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Phil Wahba

GameStop wants to buy eBay for $56 billion. Wall Street has one big question

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It’s easy to see why GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen wants to get his hands on eBay so much that the company is offering $56 billion to buy the e-commerce player at a 20% premium.

Cohen made the unsolicited offer for eBay, which is multiple times larger than GameStop by both revenue and market capitalization, over the weekend and told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that a GameStop-eBay tie-up could turn eBay, into “something worth hundreds of billions of dollars.”

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