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Oh, certainly if YHOO or MSFT had retained the Alibaba stake it would have been worth it.

It looks like YHOO shares never went back above $45B, though: https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-market-cap-over-time-2...

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The market was not valuing Yahoo fairly for most of its life as Yahoo for the company name after this.

So when Yahoo’s remains changed to Altaba after selling that $4.5B Yahoo namesake and Yahoo Japan for $4B+ soon after, it was still a nearly $40B market cap company. Almost all of it being 16% of Alibaba.