Twitter is just price a 3rd of what Elon Musk paid for it, main asset supervisor says

• Twitter has dropped in worth since Elon Musk purchased the corporate, based on Constancy.
• Constancy estimated that Twitter is just price a 3rd of what Musk paid for it, per a Bloomberg evaluation.

Twitter is continuous to plummet in worth beneath Elon Musk’s management, based on financial-services company Constancy, as reported by Bloomberg.

In accordance with a Bloomberg evaluation of the corporate’s current month-to-month holdings report, the asset supervisor estimated that Twitter was solely price round $15 billion, roughly 33% of the $44 billion Elon Musk paid to amass it in October.

Constancy owns an fairness stake in Twitter however has been routinely decreasing the stake’s worth since Musk acquired the corporate, Reuters reported.

The finance big first lowered the worth of its shares by 44% in November, per Bloomberg, one month after Musk bought the social media firm. The shares had been later marked down additional in December and February, the outlet stated.

In March, Musk appeared to acknowledge a considerable drop in Twitter’s worth when he provided inventory grants to employees that valued the corporate at $20 billion, The New York Occasions reported, citing an e mail despatched to workers. The valuation put the corporate at lower than half of what the billionaire initially paid for it.

Even earlier than buying the corporate, Musk stated Twitter was overvalued and spent months making an attempt to again out of the deal. Nonetheless, since his takeover, Twitter has seen a considerable drop in promoting income, which can have additionally contributed to the corporate’s drop in worth.

Musk has additionally laid off hundreds of Twitter employees and reduce worker headcount down by nearly 90% of what it was pre-takeover. The corporate’s headcount for full-time workers was simply 1,000 individuals in the beginning of the month, two individuals conversant in the corporate advised Insider’s Kali Hays.

Representatives for Twitter didn’t reply with a remark that addressed Insider’s query.