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overvaluing

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Discovery is overvaluing the global networks business, which is not included in the deal with Netflix, and believes the business may be worth nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Panorama also investigated the online estate agency Purplebricks, after we heard concerns it had been trying to attract sellers by overvaluing properties.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

Some investors complain that the deal undervalues the holdings of Paramount shareholders while overvaluing Skydance, further diluting the value of Paramount’s stock.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024

He and his firm lied to their 120 investors about where their money was going while dramatically overvaluing holdings to justify extortionist management fees.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023

It shall seem valour in despising and undervaluing danger; and it is but fear in an overvaluing of opinion and estimation, and a fear of losing that.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John