While Viacom paid $9.8 billion for the film and TV studio a dozen years ago, analysts suggest it’s worth just $5.5 billion today, and only that much to a foreign investor willing to pay top dollar for a stake in a major U.S. studio. Dauman’s desire for a “strategic” minority partner seems to suggest he isn’t interested in a private equity investor that would simply bring in cash and not much else.
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