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Re:Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B by tonyedgecombe on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:52AM (#23485885)
From https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-mergers-fail/

One KPMG study found that 83 percent of these deals hadn't boosted shareholder returns, while a separate study by A.T. Kearney concluded that total returns on M&A were negative.

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Re:Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B by JAlexoid on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:55AM (#23487007)
There's a presumption that companies engaged in M&A would have been executing as well as historically.

Basically - it's an unscientific opinion

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Re:Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B by tonyedgecombe on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:22AM (#23487208)
Well that could go either way couldn't it.
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