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by dpark 2691 days ago
All acquisitions are “strategic”. Even holding companies acquire assets that they believe accrue toward their strategic vision.

The EBITDA calculation is at best a sanity check for the acquirer.

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> All acquisitions are “strategic”.

I'm just using industry nomenclature. When people sell to a PEG, they don't say "we're selling to a strategic".