Paramount Global‘s beleaguered stock faltered Monday as investors fretted over the ongoing talks between controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc.
and Skydance Media. As the moon blocked out the sun across a swath of the U.S. in a total eclipse, the stock behaved accordingly, falling almost 8% on heavier-than-average trading volume to finish at $11.06.
The shares, which have lost nearly half their value over the past year, retreated amid numerous reports about how a tentative deal between David Ellison‘s Skydance and Shari Redstone‘s National Amusements would be structured.
While NAI controls more than three-quarters of Paramount’s voting shares, it has only about 10% of the company’s equity, posing a risk of dilution for a number of other shareholders.
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