See: Tangible Asset.
It's real. You can touch it, taste it, feel it. Real. Could be real estate. Could be real property. It's just not an intangible, like a patent or a long-term distribution deal with Teamsters, or their robot overlords.
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Finance allah shmoop what are hidden assets Come and listen
to a story about a man named did poor mountaineer
Barely kept family Remember them Beverly hillbillies never watched nick
at nite Well ask your parents Yes So jet owned
forty acres and a mule and had been farming well
forever Then one day he was shooting at a raccoon
You think that's what that is When up from the
ground came a bubbling crude oil that is texas tea
black gold You know the song So yeah jed stumbled
on an oil or a goldmine and hundreds of millions
of dollars later that hidden asset like the oil was
hidden from his farm He just didn't know it was
there that he was shooting at a coon and gave
him a really nice swimming hole in nine o two
one oh seriously great hidden assets happen all the time
in corporate america as well A patent for flying robot
cars that the company didn't realize it had which suddenly
became relevant when you know tracking drones became like a
thing Broadcast rights attached to a tv station acquisition where
new technology lets cell phone spectrum clamp on and produce
Extremely clear phone calls while that asset was hidden No
not so much Well a change in tax law such
that the huge tax losses in the bankrupt company and
wired for scrap are now suddenly age enormous tax deduction
The acquirer won't pay taxes now for two years because
of it well asset don't remain hidden very long Usually
companies have to disclose where they find value if for
no other reason than that it usually goose is their
stock price and everyone likes being rich right Okay so
some people's idea of riches having eighty acres and two
mules But you know that's just jet good and listen
to a story about a man named shmoop over mountains 00:01:49.471 --> [endTime] and never never mind
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