Predictably Hochtief has resisted, asking for changes in German law to make the bid, which will allow creeping acquisition of shares over a 30% threshold, more expensive.
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Investors in Schutz's sister fund, Burnham Financial Services, enjoyed a windfall on one of his acquisition plays in April when shares of Bancorp Rhode Island Inc. surged 50% on news of a Brookline Bancorp buyout at 1.8 times book value.
Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA. Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
Frontier funded a big acquisition with an issuance of new shares.
So buy shares of likely acquisition targets today--it might pay handsomely in a bidding war tomorrow.
The acquisition of the first 10% block of shares from Li Ka-shing was an overnight decision.
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Their recent acquisition of the 49% of the remaining shares of NBC Universal that they did not own, cements their industry leadership, and enhances their long-term growth potential.
Obviously, fundamentals are growing following the acquisition of Tommy but so is the number of shares outstanding.
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In the case of the Countrywide acquisition, Bank of America bought out its stock, just as an average investor may buy shares in Exxon or Apple.
Ivax Chief Executive Phillip Frost and other management shareholders have pledged the 19% of Ivax shares they own to the acquisition.
One-time contender David Sokol left Berkshire earlier this year amid an uproar over trading in shares of Lubrizol prior to its acquisition by Buffett.
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In addition, regulators are looking into efforts by Mr Greenberg to pressure specialists on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to support AIG's share price while it was completing its acquisition of American General in 2001, paid for with shares.
Aguirre says his firing was politically motivated and came after he tried to interview current Morgan Stanley Chief Executive JohnMackJohn Mack in his investigation into insider trading by Pequot Capital in shares of Heller Financial before its acquisition by General Electric in 2001.
France Telecom shares jumped after the announcement of its acquisition of Amena, as did those of Pernod Ricard and Suez after their respective takeovers were made public.
But over the past year, and particularly since the acquisition last June of Scottish Widows, a life insurer, its shares have stagnated.
The upcoming sale of shares in its food business, once the Nabisco acquisition is combined with Philip Morris' Kraft, will prove that the tobacco operations are valued near zero.
However, the result fell short of the year-ago performance due to an increase in its shares outstanding, completion of the PHC Inc. acquisition in November 2011 and an increase in interest expenses.
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Generally, inside traders profit by buying stocks of acquisition targets before deals are announced and selling after the targets' shares rise in value.
Holding shares in an acquisition target provides the most upside, as shareholders of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan ( POT) and 3PAR ( PAR) can attest.
Andreessen Horowitz has distributed about 4.6 million shares of Facebook, most of which were acquired in the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook, according to an SEC filing Tuesday.
The acquisition will be covered by a combination of about 43% cash and 57% Cairn shares.
Whenever a company trading at a premium to book value issues new shares, whether from a secondary offering or in the course of an acquisition, the book value per share goes up.
After an acquisition is announced, many long-term investors sell the shares to lock in most of the gain, rather than wait for the deal to be completed or take the risk that it will fall apart.
Shares of Mosaic, a maker of fertiliser, have been swept by one acquisition rumour after another.
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We held shares of Isilon for years after the IPO until its exit last fall via acquisition by EMC.
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If you sold shares in a company before its IPO or acquisition it was seen as a sign of duress.
There's been no official word from Ed Colligan and crew, but shares of the company jumped last week on speculation that they were quietly prepping themselves for acquisition.
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