Saturday, November 24, 2012

Bus(c)h: SOLD!!!

20% premium makes a great sell...

Did you miss this space in B&E’s July 24, 2008 issue? Well, for the uninformed, B&E had advised using sound research that Anheuser-Busch (AB) should not accept the “fair-value” $65/share takeover offer made by InBev during the first week of July and that it should wait for the premium to rise, which InBev did!!! There was another piece of advice – that AB should wait for “some weeks” till the offer price shoots northwards and the premium level touches about 20% (considering these low liquidity times].

Cut to the present and we have the “increased fair value” of $70/share or $52 billion takeover from InBev being accepted by AB on July 18, 2008 (2 weeks later), marking a premium of 18.23% as compared to its July 6, 2008 Mcap of $43.98 billion! The new company would be known as Anheuser-Busch InBev.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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