Originally Posted by
Newman
AT&T closed at 25.23 on Friday. If an all stock deal were announced, you would have to trade 225 shares of Sirius for every 1 share of AT&T. That means if you held a decent position in Sirius of 100k shares, you would end up with around 450 AT&T shares. Verizon closed at 29.96, which means you get even less with Verizon.
Not saying that I would not go for it, but I see it as being much easier to get a double out of Sirius than it would be to get a double out of AT&T or Verizon.