Option update: SAP volatility flat; Professor says MSFT should buy SAP

Posted Feb 25th 2008 9:58AM by Paul Foster
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) closed at $48.05 Friday.

Michael A Cusumano, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in the New York Times on February 24, 2008 that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), "rather than acquire Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), should pursue SAP." SAP is a German software company has more than 46,100 customers in more than 120 countries running applications from SAP.

SAP overall option implied volatility of 31 is near its 26-week average according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional risk.

Option Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com

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2-25-2008 @ 1:13PM

Terra Andersen said...

SAP actually would be a great persuit for MS. SAP has done some great things in the past few years, and this is one I have been watching for a while.

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