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acquirer

[uh-kwahy-er-er] / əˈkwaɪ ər ər /


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Bending Spoons is a debt-funded serial acquirer that went public in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The conglomerate has been a selective acquirer in recent years as the stock market has smashed new records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Once a perennial takeover candidate, it built a dominant cystic-fibrosis franchise and became an acquirer in its own right, spreading its bets from gene editing to pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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 king is the acquirer of a fixed share of the merits earned by his subjects.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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

Investors in acquirers tend to dislike deals that involve issuing new stock, as increasing the shares outstanding reduces the percentage of the company owned by current shareholders.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

California’s startup ecosystem enjoys near-dominant advantages that others don’t: vastly deeper pools of capital, talent, acquirers and institutional knowledge built over decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

If it infringed free speech for the SEC rule to require potential corporate acquirers to disclose their 5% stake in a stock, then most financial disclosure requirements would fail muster, the judge said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 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




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