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by lesuorac 267 days ago
Image you have a goose that lays golden eggs. You could just keep selling the eggs every year but somebody comes up to you and offers you 2 billion dollars now and the public market values your golden egg business at 1.5 billion dollars so it seems fair.

It turns out that if you kill the goose there's a cache of 3 billion dollars worth of eggs within it.

The goose is gone and everybody made money off of it's demise.

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PE (not always) is effective at finding under-valued companies and ensuring that they record the value on the PE's books.