I assume from the financial perspective in regards to stock price that Buffet's New Santa Fe is going to be pretty decent.
There will be no New Santa Fe or Old Santa Fe or new or old BN, assuming the deal is completed. BNSF will simply be a railroad owned by Berkshire Hathaway. All things good and bad that happen to BNSF will accrue to BH. BNSF will continue as it has and it won't have to worry as much as it has about access to capital for expansion.
Oh, and I forgot: BNSF will have just one stockholder to please. Everyone should have a stockholder like that one, which is known for allowing executives of the companies it owns to to what they know how to do, relieving them of having to go through quarterly earnings calls and listen to analysts pose the same questions over and over. That could add years to the life expectancy of executives.
Was just trying to come up with something to fill the acronym in with.
Or simply add a W to the loco's now - WBNSF.
Your second post is spot on. Furthermore currrent BNSF exec's will need those extra years of life expectancy to spend the profits alone from the $22 jump the other day.
I wish people would quite saying that Warren Buffet is the one and only owner/shareholder to acquire BNSF Railway or any other Company. He definitely is not. I own some shares and will own more shares of Berkshire Hathaway as soon as this acquisition is over and my 2 cents worth is that I am a current owner/shareholder of BNSF and BH and will continue to be that way in the future no matter which name is on the BNSF stock.
As for acronyms, I remember when BN and Santa Fe merged. People kept say it was the "Big New Santa Fe" or "Been Nothing Since Frisco." Well, a whole new paint scheme arrived. There is no name change this time, just a change in share holders. Did Benjamin Moore Paints, Helzberg Diamonds, Clayton Homes, or Fruit of the Loom change their logos, paint schemes, etc. when BH bought them? No, they didn't. BH bought the BNSF brand and everything that goes with it because it is the best railroad running. Had it not been for its management team, operations, P/L, operating ratio and who knows how much other positive information available to the public, I'm sure this decision would not have been made. And, let's not forget the fact that right now railroads are looked upon favorably environmentally. They may be an old industry but so is using paper and pencil. Today, railroads are electronic, computerized industrial versions of modern technology just the same as the computer has replaced, in most instances, paper and pencil for word procession and calculations.
It's a new world folks and it took someone like Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway to open investor's eyes. Thank got I bought Santa Fe a $5 a share many years ago. I'll retire in comfort.
That's just My 2 Cents Worth...