One result of searching for the most undervalued stocks: The fund owns an outsize share of acquisition targets.
It won't have the money to buy market share through acquisition, so has no option but to grow organically.
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Expectations for social media remain high in the buzz, brand-building and customer-loyalty categories and lower in the areas of sales, market share and customer acquisition, according to the survey.
The acquisition targets share two traits: steep selling prices and a focus on protein-based drugs, called biologics.
That would be no more intrusive than the current American rule stopping any one bank gaining more than a 10% market share of deposits by acquisition, a limit already touched by Bank of America.
There are countless studies of mergers and acquisitions showing that in the days surrounding acquisition announcements the share price of the buyer usually declines.
Legacy mortgage issues continue to plague banks with Bank of America getting more than its fair share of trouble after the acquisition of Countrywide and Merrill Lynch.
For much less than it would have cost to build new capacity, the acquisition boosts ADMs share of the U.S. soybean processing business from 29% to 31% and gives it its first soybean processing plant on the Mississippi.
The acquisition helps Unilever gain market share in a significant market such as Europe.
Although the toptable.com acquisition has given OpenTable a notable share of the U.K. market, the operations will need a few years to break-even.
The company said it now sees GAAP profits of 53-55 cents a share, or 87-89 cents excluding acquisition related restructuring and acquisition adjustments.
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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.
In addition, our recent acquisition of NewBay further expands our market share, our Personal Cloud platform functionality and our customer relationships.
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It said the acquisition should add about 5 cents per share to its operating earnings this year and 15 cents per share next year.
"I'm excited to share that all closing conditions for Microsoft's acquisition of Perceptive Pixel (PPI) have been met, and the deal is completed, " wrote Giovanni Mezgec of the Office division.
The company expects the acquisition to be 5-10 cents a share accretive in 2011.
With the help of this acquisition, McAfee increased its network security market share from 2.8% in 2007 to 7.1% in 2009.
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This is especially the case since there have been a number of other mining-sector acquisition announcements over the last year in which share prices of companies have declined, suggesting a lack of investor enthusiasm, he said.
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Excluding restructuring- and acquisition-related items, the company said its earnings per share rose to 26 cents, from 15 cents.
CommonWealth's share price has underperformed the market, a fact analysts attribute to an acquisition spree and to its unusual management structure for real-estate investment trusts.
And Veba this week sacked the head of Stinnes, its distribution division, after he insisted on making an acquisition that Veba's finance people feared might weaken its share price.
Excluding acquisition costs, General Mills reported net profit of 76 cents per share.
These businesses were merged with Gibraltar Life, earlier this year and allowed Prudential to expand its market share in terms of new business face amount from 7.3%, per-acquisition to 10.4%, post-acquisition.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
After the acquisition of Bookings.com in 2005, Priceline has been steadily increasing its market share in Europe.
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After the acquisition of Bookings.com in 2005, the company has been steadily increasing its market share in Europe.
Grocery is a low-growth industry where the only way to add sales is by capturing more market share, which Claus seems to be on track for with both improved stores and, now, acquisition.
Subtract a one-time charge related to its acquisition of graphics chip specialist ATI, and AMD reported a loss of 90 cents per share during its March quarter, far short of analyst expectations of a loss of 48 cents per share--even after AMD had guided estimates lower not once but twice over the preceding quarter.
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