Thus, it would take an acquiring company at least nine years to make back its investment.

A year later the acquiring company collapsed, and the stock lost its value.

It also did not record the price the acquiring company had to pay for the acquisition.

In such a case, the acquiring company would only need to raise 20% of the purchase price.

Their basic plan was to build a major firm primarily through acquiring companies.

Acquiring companies usually offer a target company a premium over its share price.

An acquisition can also lead to a promotion, of course, particularly if the acquiring company does not have someone doing your job.

To succeed, an acquiring company would have to get 75 percent of the shareholders behind it.

The acquiring company is not believed to have a track record in Unix.

Acquiring companies often want to replace a management team if it fought against the takeover.

For one, the acquiring companies in most of the recent deals have injected very little new cash, if any at all.

Laws prevent acquiring companies from raising shareholder costs for two years.

Normally such announcements push down the stock in an acquiring company.

So the big question confronting shareholders of the acquiring companies is whether those savings are real.

"So much energy goes into acquiring companies and moving stock around, instead of figuring out how to make new things that people want to buy.

In such cases, the acquiring company rebrands itself with the acquired name.

After acquiring companies, they would restructure them and sell off profitable parts.

At current cash-flow levels, they say, an acquiring company may have to wait nearly a decade to make back its investment.

Of course, other factors can cause the acquiring company's shares to fall, including a deal so complex that it is difficult to evaluate.

For the acquiring company, such deals are an alternative to raising money on the stock market, which is extremely difficult now.

He is a genius at acquiring companies and keeping them from dying afterward.

Even so, Cisco has a record of acquiring companies and using them to complement its strategy.

Q. How will the acquiring company disclose its reorganization plan?

Both have expanded partly by acquiring companies with lower profit margins.

The acquiring company prevailed in the long run and the experiment for a merger did not last a year.