Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
M&A Most Commonly Used Software / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Generally, M&A activities involve the transfer or consolidation of a company's ownership, other business organization, or one of its operating units.
Strategic management consists of many components, among them M&A, which allow an enterprise to expand or contract and change its nature and value proposition.
Mergers and Acquisitions are a part of strategic management, allowing for expanding businesses into new markets, the expansion of services, the exploitation of synchronizations, the reduction of costs, the increase in financial leverage, or the simplifying of operational procedures.
During an acquisition, a company or business may be purchased by another or other entities.
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Thursday, July 06, 2017
The Whole Foods And Amazon Merger Is A Sign Of The Major Trend Every Investor Should Be Aware Of / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : If you are a shareholder in either Amazon (AMZN) or Whole Foods Market (WFM), their combination ought to please you.
Both stocks rose on the merger news while the rest of the grocery industry dropped. But in the long run, I’m not sure their deal will work out well for any of us.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Business Mergers Soar in 2015 / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: BATR
What does a CEO do when the economy is in a persistent down turn and your business cannot expand or grow? Jump at the time tested strategy of acquisition to gain market share seems to be the response in 2015. Yet a merger is no sure thing. Anyone remember AOL’s deal to buy Time Warner. How did that turn out? Just how much additional efficiency can be squeezed out of any company? In the era of part time contract workers and low wages, all the fat has been long gone. As for research and development in new technology or products, how will such innovation be marketed in an economy infatuated with the promise of Amazon Prime drone deliveries?
Thursday, February 27, 2014
WhatsApp and the Wild, Weird, Wacky World of Investing / Commodities / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
Recently, in a conversation with another investor, I referred to a company’s management as being “extremely honest.” I was corrected, that honesty is binary and cannot be described with an adjective — a person is either honest or not.
The same applies to the word insane — you cannot be insane a little. Insane is, however, the word I would use to describe the valuation that Facebook paid for WhatsApp. You see, beyond a certain point at which the boundaries of reason have been thoroughly breached, quantifying the valuation paid for WhatsApp is like putting an adjective in front of infinity.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
WhatsApp With Facebook? / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Peter_Schiff
Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook's blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of instant messaging provider WhatsApp. The second (which few have noticed) is the horrific earnings report issued by Texas-based retail chain Conn's. While these two developments don't seem to have much in common, together they shed some very unflattering light on where we stand economically.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
One of Wall Street's Worst "Dirty Secrets" / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: What I'm going to show you today, you'll rarely see from mainstream financial analysts.
This secret is worth too much. It generates hundreds of millions of dollars every year for the insiders on Wall Street. This secret is why investment banking is such a lucrative trade.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Why Gordon Gekko Was Wrong, Greed is Not Always Good / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
As longtime readers know, I have a real affinity for old investing adages - in large part because of the very real lessons the best ones convey.
And one of my favorites tells us that "Bulls make money, bears make money - and pigs get slaughtered."
Friday, February 10, 2012
Three Glencore Xstrata Metals and Mining Takeover Targets: TCK, AAL, FCX / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
The proposed mega-merger of Glencore International PLC and Xstrata PLC will create a global powerhouse with the potential to shake up the mining industry overnight.
If completed, the $90 billion deal will form a mining behemoth with control over one-third of the global market for thermal coal, and make it the world's largest producer of integrated zinc production. It will also rank as the world's third-largest copper producer and fourth-largest nickel producer.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Pan American to Acquire Minefinders and its Dolores Mine for $1.5B / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: G_Joel_Chury
Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) has indicated it will buy Vancouver-Based metals miner Minefinders Corp. (TSX:MFL) (AMEX:MFN) for nearly $1.5 billion, a move that will boost the combined company portfolio to 8 operating mines, half of which are located in Mexico. Going by 2011 production numbers, the new entity represents 26 million ounces of silver.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Cash-Rich Companies Share the Wealth with Trillion-Dollar M&A 2011 Activity / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
Mergers and acquisitions, or M&A activity, so far in 2011 has been a driving force in the stock market's positive performance.
In fact, global M&A activity in the first quarter topped $799.8 billion, the most since 2007's pre-crash frenzy, according to a recent report in Forbes magazine.
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Warren Buffett Taking Berkshire Hathaway on the Hunt for Takeover Targets / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Iconic investor and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) Warren Buffett announced on Feb. 26 in his annual shareholder letter that his company was eyeing acquisition targets in 2011, sending many "follow the guru" investors on a search for the next big takeover.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Morningstar's Top Takeover Targets in 2011 / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Dian_L_Chu
Hedge Fund Live writes: The spreadsheet below gives you the up-to-date internals for the top take out names identified by Morningstar. Before getting to the spreadsheet let me tell you what these companies do and what the rumor mill has been saying over the last few months.
ACTELION (ALIOF.PK): In mid-November, Bloomberg reported that Amgen (AMGN) was preparing an approach that could come within days, while the usual big pharma suspects have all been touted as potentially interested.
Friday, February 18, 2011
More Mega-Deals to Come as M&A Activity Returns to Pre-Crisis Levels / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
A flurry of early-year deal making has helped drive global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to its highest level since before the financial crisis. And the M&A market still hasn't hit full stride.
Cash rich companies and greater confidence in the overall economy are two big reasons for the turnaround. But international, cross-border deals have offered another catalyst for the spectacular growth.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mergers & Acquisitions Set to Accelerate in 2011 Following Best Start in a Decade / Stock-Markets / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
So far, 2011 has seen the biggest flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in a decade, helped by a stock market that's off to a roaring start.
Worldwide deals worth $34 billion were announced on Sunday and Monday, bringing total M&A volume this year to more than $83 billion, up from $67 billion in the same period last year, the Financial Times reported.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Biotech Stocks Will be Fueled by Takeovers in 2011 / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
While a number of companies are on the verge of hitting the market with exciting new drug products or medical treatments, the biggest 2011 profits for investors in the biotech stocks are more likely to come from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) than research and development (R&D).
That's because mergers and buyouts in the industry have far outpaced the sector's overall growth rate, which in recent years has been sluggish. Indeed, IMS Health, a leading research and analytical firm serving the pharmaceutical and medical industries, projects only a slight increase in worldwide growth in 2011 - 5% to 7% versus a pace of 4% to 5% this year - with a similarly restrained outlook stretching out to 2015.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
M&A Set to Accelerate in 2011 After a Late November Surge / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in late November could presage the biggest surge in deals since the economy tanked three years ago.
In just the last week, nearly $25 billion in M&A deals were announced. BP PLC's (NYSE ADR: BP) sale of its majority stake in Pan American Energy, which went for $7.1 billion, was at the top of the list. With that sale, BP will have secured about $21 billion of the $30 billion it hoped to raise from asset sales to help cover damages from its oil spill disaster.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Caterpillar Moves Into Mining with $8.6 Billion Bid for Bucyrus / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), the world's leading manufacturer of construction equipment, yesterday (Monday) said it would pay $8.6 billion for Bucyrus International Inc. (Nasdaq: BUCY) – a maker of large-scale surface and underground mining machinery.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Global M&A Boom Fueled by Global Currency War / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A binge of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is being fueled by the global currency war, which has increased the value of emerging market currencies.
The value of worldwide M&A totaled $1.75 trillion during the first nine months of 2010, a 21% increase from comparable 2009 levels and the strongest nine month period for M&A since 2008, according to Thomson Reuters.
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Oracle Declares War with HP By Hiring Hurd / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Dian_L_Chu
In response to HP's suit against its former CEO Mark Hurd to block him from working at Oracle, Larry Ellison stated that
Read full article... Read full article..."Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner...By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders and employees....The HP Board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace."
Sunday, September 05, 2010
HP`s 3PAR Acquisition Makes Strategic & Financial Sense / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Dian_L_Chu
The 3PAR saga finally came to a close on Sep. 2 with Dell Inc. (DELL) beaten by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) in an 18-day bidding war. The final price tag of 3PAR is at $33 a share, or $2.35 billion, almost twice Dell’s initial offer at $18 a share last month.
So, does this acquisition make sense for HP?