What Vodafone’s Awfully Big Deal Means For Small Investors

Owain Bennallack is joined by fellow Fools Nate Weisshaar and Mark Rogers to talk all things Vodafone.

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It’s back to school season, and with Vodafone finally agreeing to sell its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, the “What I did this summer” essays are going to have to wait for City scribblers, whose homework  instead is to consider the consequences of the monster windfall for the UK’s third-largest company — and its shareholders. We will too, with Owain Bennallack helped out by Fool analysts Nate Weisshaar and Mark Rogers in explaining what this $130bn deal means for you.

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NOTE:

Apologies, Fools.

In this podcast I erroneously said that Vodafone’s B Share Scheme would include measures that would eliminate your need to even touch Verizon shares.

Obviously I was wrong, and the B Share Scheme only determines how your gains will be recognised by the tax man.

However, in a more correct answer to Owain’s question: Vodafone has arranged with Verizon to provide shareholders with fewer than 50,000 Vodafone shares an option to sell their newly acquired Verizon shares quickly, easily, and in a cost-effective manner.

The details of this will be outlined further in a circular concerning the deal which is expected to be released in December. Until then Vodafone has provided an array of information at www.vodafone.com/investor and you may be able to have your questions answered there.

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused,

Nate Weisshaar

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