But some analysts suspect that Simon would have preferred to wait until Mills» financial reports became public and put in the $ 24
per share bid only because Brookfield was close to getting the deal.
[Yep, it's like Dublin buses — nothing turns up forever, then two bids come along at once...] News broke on Friday in the Irish Times of a $ 1.80
per share bid for the company (from Capvest), with One51 confirming a preliminary & conditional approach later in the day.
But of course, you know what comes next... Sunday brought some great news: A $ 20 million / 20 cents
per share bid for the company, which Zamano subsequently confirmed first thing Monday morning!
This has lured Royalty Pharma out of shadows, to offer shareholders an interesting alternative: An $ 11.00
per share bid.
Late on Friday night Saputo revealed it was lifting its $ 8 cash
per share bid to $ 9 per share, matching Murray Goulburn's offer but putting it slightly below Bega Cheese's cash and scrip bid, which valued WCB shares at $ 9.13 on Friday.
Meanwhile, Emerson Electric withdrew its $ 225
per share bid to buy Rockwell Automation.
Sky's independent directors welcomed Comcast's 12.50 pound
per share bid and said they would now engage with both Comcast and Fox.
Sky's independent directors said they welcomed Comcast's 12.50 pound
per share bid and would now engage with both Comcast and Fox.
Not exact matches
Then, Verizon — without having its name officially disclosed — topped AT&T's
bid and eventually closed the deal at $ 184
per share — five times the starting trading price.
Seven Group Holdings has upped its takeover
bid for National Hire Group, after its initial offer of $ 3.00
per share was rejected by the target's major shareholder, Tasmania - based Caterpillar dealer Da
(Also, showing just how hot this space is now, on Wednesday IAC announced a
bid to acquire Angie's List for $ 8.75
per share.
Norton Gold Fields is poised to succeed in its Bullabulling Gold takeover
bid after the Perth explorer begrudgingly accepted the increased takeover offer of 8 cents
per share.
The move, at # 12.50
per share, led Sky to withdraw its recommendation of 21st Century Fox's rival
bid, which was only # 10.75
per share.
(The highest competing
bid at the time, from investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, was valued at a little over $ 14
per share, but had arguable downsides in its details.)
The combination should be «immediately accretive to earnings
per share,» said the statement, noting the
bid for Moy Park values the entire company at $ 1.3 billion.
Romit Shah, Nomura Instinet, and «Fast Money» trader Guy Adami parse Broadcom's reported $ 70
per share in cash and stock
bid for Qualcomm.
The board initially rejected Brito's unsolicited
bid, but eventually agreed to sell for a sweetened $ 70
per share.
Last week Sprint had to raise its offer for wireless service provider Clearwire to $ 5
per share from $ 3.40
per share to fight off a rival
bid of $ 4.40
per share from Dish.
The
bid formalizes an offer first made in February and puts pressure on Fox, which already has a 39 - percent stake in Sky, to raise the 10.75 pound
per share cash offer it first announced in December 2016.
Shares of Time Warner, which rejected an $ 85 -
per -
share bid from Rupert Murdoch in 2014, have climbed 15 % to almost $ 92.
The new
bid had been around 7 % higher than Pfizer's original approach, and would have provided AstraZeneca stockholders with around $ 84
per share in cash and stock. www.astrazeneca.com
Monsanto
shares closed little changed at $ 108.45 on Wednesday, offering an 18 percent upside to Bayer's takeover
bid of $ 128
per share or $ 66 billion in total.
That may explain why Japan's Suntory jumped ahead of a number of European suitors, including France's Pernod Ricard, to
bid for Beam last month — offering to pay Beam stockholders $ 83.50
per share, a 25 % premium over the stock's then - market price of around $ 67, in addition to assuming some $ 2.4 billion in company debt.
Fairfax Financial (TSX: FFH), BlackBerry's largest shareholder, has made a conditional takeover
bid worth US$ 9
per share and values the company at US$ 4.7 billion.
That
bid ultimately failed, although it did force General Dynamics to amend its offer to acquire all outstanding
shares of CSRA for $ 41.25
per share in cash, an increase from the original $ 40.75
per share offer.
McDermott International — The oilfield services company rejected a $ 7
per share takeover
bid from Norwegian peer Subsea 7, according to a statement from Subsea 7 this morning.
Broadcom submitted a
bid of $ 70
per share for Qualcomm, in the form of $ 60 in cash and $ 10 of Broadcom stock.
He thinks there is room for the Broadcom
bid to increase to the high - $ 70 to low - $ 80
per share range.
The Fairfax
bid valued BlackBerry at US$ 4.7 billion and US$ 9
per share.
** Brazilian electricity company Energisa said on Thursday its board has approved a
bid to buy Eletropaulo, Brazil's largest power distribution company, for 19.38 reais
per share.
Healthscope
shares were up another 2
per cent to $ 2.43 on Monday - which is well ahead of BGH and friends» indicative
bid at $ 2.36.
That
bid could have a two in front of it, and a $ 20 -
per -
share offer would signal Gannett's absolute determination to win Tribune.
Brazil - based Neoenergia, which is controlled by Iberdrola and Brazilian pension funds, on April 26 raised its
bid to 32.1 reais
per share, higher than two
bids it had made earlier in April.
That's until Vision received a
bid from Pulse Health (PHG) valuing it at $ 0.88
per share, a 33 % premium to the prior
share price.
On May 16, Gannett, which has discounted Tribune Publishing's recently unveiled digital strategy as «unproven,» and questioned Ferro's publishing track record, boosted its all - cash offer to acquire Tribune Publishing to $ 15
per share, from an unsolicited $ 12.25 - a-
share bid that was rejected.
Two new
bids emerged over the weekend, with both Blackstone and Icahn offering slightly more than the $ 13.65
per share that Michael Dell and Silver Lake have proposed paying existing shareholders.
The pet food company is «unlikely» to be offered a higher
bid, so the analyst's revised price target is consistent with Friday's closing price — and the price tag on the deal of $ 40
per share.
They emerged as the industry consolidators, using high levels of gearing to pay mind boggling prices for assets (in 2007, APN was the target of a
bid by a private equity consortium that was blocked by a shareholder vote at $ 6.20
per share, a decision which cost them a lot.
«By the end of July 1932 - the month the Dow Jones Industrials bottomed out - 80 % of all NYSE stocks in the bottom decile had
bid prices less than or equal to $ 1
per share, while the
bid - ask spread for these prices averaged 135 % of the
bid price (e.g.,
bid 1/2, ask 1-1/8).
Fox has to at least match Comcast's offer, but analysts estimate a final winning
bid could go as high as 14 to 15 pounds
per share.
It's possible that if the company gets too undervalued, a buyer might make a
bid for the company and attempt to take it over, sometimes at a price lower than your original purchase price
per share.
Siemens said the $ 83 -
per -
share bid was unanimously supported by Dresser - Rand's board of directors.
Mr Boon said the Tabcorp offer — which offered shareholders a 21
per cent premium on the
share price before the
bid was revealed last week, and a 58
per cent stake in the combined company — was too good to refuse.
IAC / InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IAC) announced Monday after close that it committed to acquiring Angie's List Inc (NASDAQ: ANGI) for $ 8.50
per share — a sum $ 0.25 beneath the initial
bid and $ 0.50 below Benchmark's estimated fair value — making it a clear win for IAC...
There is market speculation that WCB board members, who combined control about 2
per cent of the company's
shares, have accepted the Saputo
bid for their personal holdings.
The bank noted that while KKR's incomplete and conditional $ 3 billion
bid, or $ 4.70 a
share, was rejected by the board, it represented a 27
per cent premium to the stock's April 15 level.
The arrival of a takeover
bid is usually welcome news for
shares prices; Treasury Wine Estates stock soared 18
per cent when the company rejected a
bid from KKR.
The company last week received a $ 5.20 - a-
share bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and its junior partner, Rhone Capital, which itself was an improvement on KKR's original standalone offer of $ 4.70
per share.
Shares in Treasury Wine have rallied nearly 25
per cent since KKR's
bid was made public, signalling investors are expecting a better
bid from the US fund or for another player to soon join the auction with a price set at least above $ 5
per share.
And in the event of a
bidding war, the
share price appreciation can go even higher than the traditional 30
per cent
bid premium.