Do I Play the Buyout of TXU Corp (TXU)

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Do I Play the Buyout of TXU Corp (TXU)

Written by David Neubert

Do I buy TXU Corp (TXU - $67.93) now because KKR is buying the company and maybe the price goes higher?

Naw, not with a P/E of 16.5 and price to cash flow of multiple on this deal at $69.25 a share, local lawmakers trying to punish the utility with rate decreases because of the coal plants, and environmentalists out to get them. I say if KKR wants TXU, let them have it. I don't think KKR knows what kind of mess they are getting themselves into. If the deal falls apart because of look out below on the stock price, there is not a cheap valuation to support it.

Disclosures and Confessions: I do not own TXU.

In addition to KKR and Texas Pacific, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley
(MS), Citigroup Inc. (C) and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) will own part of Dallas-based TXU. I am a former employee of Morgan Stanley (MS) and Lehman Brothers(LEH), I am vested in their executive compensation, stock ownership and options plans. I also own shares in Citigroup (C).

I do use lots of electricity, I'd like to use less. I wish electricity cost more so that people would have more incentive to use less.

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