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It also raises the question: If the target company’s liabilities exceeded the identifiable assets, then why did the acquirer buy it?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“AstraZeneca would effectively be a U.K.-based acquirer of one of America’s large pharmas, at a time when U.S. policymakers are focused on domestic manufacturing and strategic industries,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

It’s “a higher quality asset materially under-earning with self-help and/or acquisition by a strategic acquirer as potential catalysts,” write Wolfe analysts.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

“The fact that SpaceX…is the acquirer here is symbolic of where the next multi‑trillion‑dollar technology opportunity lies,” he says.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

Yes, if the acquirer has any such capacities as we have just outlined.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey

Strategic acquirers and tech giants have deployed $17.4 billion across 92 acquisitions through the third quarter, putting M&A activity on track for its busiest year on record.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Investors in serial acquirers have seen this before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But he stressed that a variety of catalysts could unlock value, even for companies that weren’t clear targets for acquirers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Other scale plays have fared little better, leaving acquirers with stagnant portfolios instead of durable growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Although the library included a proportion of desirable articles, many of the books were esteemed so worthless that the acquirers removed the ex libris, and left the rest behind them!

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt