I own two shares of stock in Yahoo Inc

    by FunkyChonkyMonkey

    26 Comments

    1. FunkyChonkyMonkey on

      I bought one share in 2002 from a novelty company called OneShare, and in 2004 they voted to do a 1:2 stock split, so they mailed me a second certificate.

    2. Did you get paid out when Verizon acquired yahoo? Upon reading it looks like yahoo inc became altaba.

    3. omnipotentsandwich on

      Yahoo is now owned by Apollo Global Management which is worth $117 a share today. 

    4. ThirdAltAccounts on

      I’m ashamed to say that I badly wanted one for my one of my GME (GameStop) shares 😅

      But they stopped giving them out because of the overwhelming demand from delusional dumbasses like me

    5. “For automated stock prices, please state the company name.”

      Animotion.

      “Animotion: Up one and one-half.”

      YAHOO!

      “Yahoo: Up six and a quarter.”

      Huh? What is this crap?

      “Fox Broadcasting: Down eight.”

    6. So there should have been a buyout of your stock in 2017 when it was acquired by Verizon. I no longer have access to that information but because of how long ago that was you may be outside of the window to execute the conversion.

    7. baloneysammich on

      Just to sum up my reading of the comments, along with my research.

      Yahoo did not get bought by Verizon, Verizon bought some assets from Yahoo, leaving Yahoo as essentially an investment shell called Altaba.

      Altaba liquidated last year at 20 cents a share. So congratulations, your paper is worth slightly less than the cost of the stamp they would use to send you your earnings.

      Amusingly, I found this last piece of information on Yahoo: [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/altaba-announces-liquidating-distribution-0-200000257.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/altaba-announces-liquidating-distribution-0-200000257.html)

      More info about the asset sale (at the time the name Altaba was not known, and they were internally calling it RemainCo): [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/business/dealbook/yahoos-sale-to-verizon-leaves-shareholders-with-little-say.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/business/dealbook/yahoos-sale-to-verizon-leaves-shareholders-with-little-say.html)

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