According to the Wall Street Journal’s Miriam Gottfried, Twitter Inc TWTR 0.06% may now have fallen to a valuation that makes it an attractive buyout target for a large tech or media company.

After giving up more than half of its market cap in the past year, Twitter’s stock now trades well below its November 2013 IPO price of $26.

Although Twitter’s remaining market cap of more than $12 billion certainly limits its possible buyers to some of the larger players, Gottfried sees several potential Twitter buyers that make sense.

One of Gottfried’s top candidates is Alphabet Inc GOOGL 2.59%. “Besides being able to extend its considerable existing ad-sales capabilities to Twitter, the search giant could use Twitter’s data to enhance its knowledge about mobile users for the purpose of ad targeting,” she explains.

In addition, Gottfried believes…

Click here to continue reading

Want to learn more about how to profit off the stock market? Or maybe you just want to be able to look sophisticated in front of your coworkers when they ask you what you are reading on your Kindle, and you’d prefer to tell them “Oh, I’m just reading a book about stock market analysis,” rather than the usual “Oh, I’m just looking at pics of my ex-girlfriend on Facebook.” For these reasons and more, check out my book, Beating Wall Street with Common Sense. I don’t have a degree in finance; I have a degree in neuroscience. You don’t have to predict what stocks will do if you can predict what traders will do and be one step ahead of them. I made a 400% return in the stock market over five years using only basic principles of psychology and common sense. Beating Wall Street with Common Sense is now available on Amazon, and tradingcommonsense.com is always available on your local internet!