You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.
The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.
Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!
If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.