Match.com sees the acquisition has having value rather than being strategic.
We've taken a conservative approach in our valuation assumptions, including continued erosion of the home entertainment market, and we expect this acquisition to create value for our shareholders.
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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.
Yes, those who place a value on acquisition are dead-on aware of these costs.
The other four still offer excellent acquisition potential and great value in their own right.
The buyer can offset the cost of these surprises if the acquisition delivers big strategic value.
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Did Autonomy, as part of HP, continue to sell third-party hardware of materially similar value after acquisition?
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The people in the company become part of a team which has to turn the acquisition into a high value return on invested capital for IBM.
We are moving towards a model that offers low-cost acquisition, coupled with high value and high collaboration around a document.
The assets acquired and the liabilities assumed from Lotus will be recorded at the date of acquisition, at their fair value.
Google has always said the Motorola acquisition was more about the value of the firm's patents rather than its desire to get into the mobile hardware business.
One of the keys to creating value from an acquisition however is to integrate the two companies in a way that makes it easy for people to do business both internally and with customers.
"This was a particularly callous murder where Grenfell put greater value on his acquisition of a car than the life of an innocent man simply protecting his own property that he had worked so hard for, " he said.
The simple fact is, if investors believe that the value-added by the acquisition will be beyond the premium paid, even the acquirer could see a nice lift in share value.
That acquisition price was roughly the market value of all of Motorola in 2008.
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Oracle has more than doubled in value with an aggressive acquisition strategy.
Even if you are not a senior manager, or a member of the integration team, you can raise the question of whether your acquisition is creating complexity or building value.
"Our results this quarter demonstrate the ability of our colleagues to deliver solid operational performance in a challenging environment as well as to extract value for shareholders from the acquisition of Wyeth, " Kindler said.
It also runs the largest pan-European stock market by value of stocks traded following its acquisition last year of Chi-X Europe.
Vivendi's gigantic loss for last year included a euro12.6 billion writedown in the value of assets bought during its acquisition binge.
The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.
It was then I concluded that the stock offered great value and was a good candidate for potential acquisition.
He is the most prominent casualty of the acquisition of British software company Autonomy, much of the value of which has now been written off.
Since the acquisition, McClatchy has lost approximately 90% of its value.
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Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in 2009.
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Yet even when loss of shareholder value is a long-term consequence of the acquisition, the company executives responsible for the misjudgment usually remain unscathed.
"Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in 2009, " Disney said, adding that the valuation was almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise.
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The vast majority of them drive improvements in customer acquisition, retention, satisfaction, revenue, profitability, and customer value.
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