acquirer

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Since then, the stock has surged to nearly that market cap, meaning any acquirer today would likely need to pay $40 billion or more.

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

Or there’s Canada’s Constellation Software, a serial acquirer of niche software companies that made investors 300 times their money at its peak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Enforcers sometimes investigate whether to block a merger because the acquirer is already too powerful in a given market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Returning for a moment to the commercial aspect of our present topic, the Transatlantic acquirer at any cost makes the fixture of high, even ridiculous, prices for certain books impossible.

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 Hazlitt, William Carew