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- Mergers and Acquisitions-Summary(1): 1980 - 1989 Item Unit 1980 1985 1987 1988 1989
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- All activity(2) # 1,560 3,437 3,920 4,024 3,602
- Value $ 32,883 145,464 177,203 237,084 240,962
- Divestitures(3) # 104 1,037 1,192 1,281 1,173
- Value $ 5,090 43,524 57,519 83,472 63,367
- Leveraged
- buyouts(4) # 11 254 270 381 361
- Value $ 236 19,634 36,069 47,053 65,508
- Method of payment:
- Cash % 29 40 54 58 58
- Stock % 52 10 11 7 6
- Combination(5) % 16 19 20 16 18
- Undisclosed(6) % 3 26 18 19 18
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- Ownership status of
- acquisitions targets:
- Public acquired
- company # 398 817 995 947 996
- Value $ 11,948 91,513 102,829 128,703 162,722
- Private acquired
- company # 1,059 1,588 1,683 1,734 1,357
- Value $ 15,215 10,376 14,853 23,186 16,071
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- #=Number
- $=Million dollars
- %=Percent
- 1. Covers transactions valued at $1,000,000 or more. Values based
- on transactions for which price data revealed.
- 2. All activity includes mergers, acquisitions, acquisitions of
- controlling interest, divestitures, and leveraged transactions
- that result in a change in ownership.
- 3. Divestiture:sale of a business, division, or subsidiary by
- corporate owner to another party.
- 4. Leveraged buyout:acquisition of a business in which buyers use
- mostly borrowed money to finance purchase price and
- incorporate debt into capital structure of a business after
- change in ownership.
- 5. Combination of cash, stock debt, other.
- 6. Price was given but method of payment was not.
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- Source:MLR Publishing Co.
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