The effect of share exchange ratios on the wealth of participating firms involved in mergers

A mathematical model which relates the exchange ratio (the number of acquiring firm's shares issued for each target share) and the postmerger expected price earnings ratio of firms involved in mergers, is applied to 30 firms involved in recent share-exchange mergers on the Johannesburg Stock Ex...

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Main Authors: R. C. Van Den Honert, G. D.I. Barr, A. J. Galloway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 1989-06-01
Series:South African Journal of Business Management
Online Access:https://sajbm.org/index.php/sajbm/article/view/943