Yes, a high percentage of mergers fail, with many studies indicating failure rates between 50% and 90%, with 70% to 75% being a commonly cited range. Key reasons for this failure include ineffective integration strategies, poor target identification, delays, a lack of speed, and cultural clashes between the two merging entities. Overpriced aquisition.
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BD is not a good buy, they need to get there accounting department on all BD US sites.
Waters recent acquisitions of Andrew Alliance and Wyatt failed in integration. Wyatt overpriced. In last five years, Waters acquisitions have failed
Based on the horrendous Wyatt integration, one must assume BD will also be an epic failure.
Wall Street is punishing the stock because they know it’s a bad merger