Paramount makes $108.4 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery

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Reuters

Mon, December 8, 2025 astatine 8:38 AM CST 1 min read

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance connected Monday launched a hostile bid worthy $108.4 cardinal for Warner Bros Discovery

EMARKETER SENIOR ANALYST ROSS ⁠BENES:

"The Warner Bros ‌Discovery acquisition is acold from over. Netflix is successful the driver's ‍seat but determination volition beryllium twists and turns earlier the decorativeness line. Paramount volition entreaty to shareholders, regulators and politicians to effort ‌to stymie Netflix. The conflict could go prolonged."

CRAIG HUBER, HUBER RESEARCH PARTNERS

"Paramount should beryllium precise cautious taking connected the magnitude of indebtedness they are proposing to money buying ⁠Warner Bros. Discovery, successful our opinion, careless of the synergies fixed the semipermanent secular gross unit the bequest businesses look which ‍are not ⁠going away. Debt is not your person with media stocks. Did putting CBS ⁠and Viacom unneurotic enactment out?"

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh, ‌Arnav Mishra, Arpan Varghese successful Bengaluru ‌Editing by Anil D'Silva)