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Recent Examples of acquirer from the Web
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In a series of dizzying turns, Western Digital, the American data-storage company, has acted as a supportive business partner, a would-be acquirer and a bitter legal adversary.
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The Texas regulators want Oncor to retain an independent oversight board to protect the company from assuming too much debt from any acquirer.
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Symantec has been one of the most serial acquirers in security companies in recent years, gobbling up Lifelock for $2.3 billion earlier this year and Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in 2015.
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Clearly, all those acquirers saw the need to boost their mobile app development skills and personnel.
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The acquirer's three divisions are electronics and automation, automotive components and safety markets.
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The companies are among China’s most flamboyant overseas acquirers.
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Last year’s 137 percent surge in Chinese takeovers vaulted the country to No. 2 behind the U.S. on the ranking of global acquirers.
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Acquirers typically have paid between 4 and 4.5 times sales for medical-products companies, according to Morningstar.
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First Known Use of acquirer
1607
Financial Definition of ACQUIRER
acquirer
What It Is
An acquirer is a person or company that purchases all or a portion of an asset or company.
How It Works
Company XYZ wants to acquire Company ABC. Company XYZ might just start buying ABC shares on the open market, but once Company XYZ acquires 5% of ABC, it must formally (and publicly) declare how many shares it owns to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Company XYZ must also state whether it intends to buy ABC or just hold its existing shares as an investment. In either case, Company XYZ is an acquirer. The term is mostly used in the context of purchasing a majority of another company, however.
Why It Matters
Acquirers often make acquisitions with cash, but they also use debt and their own stock as well, and there are often tax consequences associated with each form of currency.
Acquirers acquire other companies because they think they can create a bigger, more competitive, more cost-efficient entity. This synergy -- that is, the idea that the two companies together are more valuable to the shareholders than they are apart -- is elusive, but it is what justifies most acquisitions. After all, acquirers always have the much harder option of trying to "grow their own" by starting their own competitive ventures instead of buying someone else's. Targets sell their companies to acquirers because at the end of the day, the price is right. And on both sides, a well-executed acquisition can be the crowning jewel of a CEO's career.
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