Masayoshi Son Just Pushed SoftBank Shares Past Dot-Com Peak

  • Stock price surge comes after company reported record profit
  • Son says SoftBank is like the goose that lays golden eggs
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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For Masayoshi Son, these days are even better than the dot-com bubble.

Shares in the Japanese billionaire’s SoftBank Group Corp. surged in Tokyo on Tuesday to the highest close since the company went public in 1994, rising past a long-standing record two decades ago.