You can't just go private. You have to buy out shareholders, all of them. It is essentially a buy out. That means you have to sell at a price that the shareholders accept. Which means paying more than the marketshare.
For Apple and Google, you'd need a massive amount of money to buy the companies. Dell found it by taking his money plus taking billions in private equity partners and can creditors. One thing that helped Dell was that it was a pretty cheap company. Trading at less than 10 P to E.
Plus Wall Street trusts Apple and Google. There isn't a huge gain by going private.
For Apple and Google, you'd need a massive amount of money to buy the companies. Dell found it by taking his money plus taking billions in private equity partners and can creditors. One thing that helped Dell was that it was a pretty cheap company. Trading at less than 10 P to E.
Plus Wall Street trusts Apple and Google. There isn't a huge gain by going private.