Some merger investors make bets on potential acquisition targets before any deal is announced.
So buy shares of likely acquisition targets today--it might pay handsomely in a bidding war tomorrow.
The acquisition targets share two traits: steep selling prices and a focus on protein-based drugs, called biologics.
One result of searching for the most undervalued stocks: The fund owns an outsize share of acquisition targets.
State Street has been on the look out for acquisition targets in recent months in its bid to grow inorganically.
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Finally, Web startups hoping to be Google or Apple acquisition targets had a harder time getting venture capital this past quarter.
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Generally, inside traders profit by buying stocks of acquisition targets before deals are announced and selling after the targets' shares rise in value.
Still, companies are always on the hunt for potential acquisition targets.
Other companies that have been cited as possible Apple acquisition targets include Fusion-IO (FIO), another flash memory storage company, Twitter , and perhaps Wolfram Alpha .
Another quality IAC likes in acquisition targets is cash flow.
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At the present time there are several private storage companies left focusing on the rich media market that could be future acquisition targets, including, Active Storage, Atempo, Cache-A and DataDirect Networks.
With the global beer market already well on its way to consolidation, there are not a lot of attractive acquisition targets left to snag, and those that do come up are not likely to go cheaply.
In a report posted last week, Wolf and his team identified the Top 10 SaaS companies, in terms of revenue and business customers, and said many make attractive acquisition targets for some of the bigger players like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and SAP who need to embrace new cloud technologies.
Potential targets for acquisition include Moveable Type, a software-based Web-log service, and Radio Userland, another desktop software product used for publishing Web logs produced by privately held UserLand Software of Acton, Mass.
Other names that have been thrown out as potential merger targets are the CBOE (NASDAQ: CBOE), which has been an acquisition target since it went public in the summer of last year.
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