Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid

Twitter’s worth has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, barely greater than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valuation is predicated on Constancy’s newest evaluation of its stake within the firm.

“Constancy Blue Chip Progress Fund’s stake in Twitter was valued at $6.6 million as of April 28, in accordance with the fund’s monthly disclosure launched Sunday,” The Wall Road Journal wrote today. “That’s down from about $19.7 million on the finish of October, shortly after Musk’s takeover, and the third time Constancy has marked down the worth of its Twitter stake, public disclosures present.”

Constancy’s new calculation “places Twitter’s general valuation at about $15 billion, or roughly a 3rd of the deal value,” the WSJ wrote. Twitter is recognized within the Fidelity filing as X Holdings, the Musk-owned holding firm that owns X Corp., which merged with Twitter. Constancy’s new valuation of Twitter was beforehand reported by Bloomberg.

“It is unclear how Constancy arrived at its new, decrease valuation or whether or not it receives any private info from the corporate,” Bloomberg wrote.

Musk stated he overpaid

Musk funded many of the Twitter buy together with his personal cash but in addition used $13 billion of debt, saddling Twitter with curiosity funds that reportedly quantity to $1.5 billion a 12 months. Although Musk paid $44 billion, Twitter wasn’t essentially value that a lot.

Musk acknowledged that he was “clearly overpaying” for Twitter shortly earlier than the deal closed. Musk reduce prices by eliminating most of Twitter’s staff; he additionally allegedly didn’t pay many payments as firms have lined as much as sue Twitter for nonpayment.

In a March 24 electronic mail that referred to as Twitter an “inverse startup,” Musk told employees that its worth had dropped to $20 billion. Musk additionally instructed workers that he “see[s] a transparent however tough path” to a future valuation of greater than $250 billion.