Neutral Acquisition

  

Whatever.com trades at 25x this year's earnings. They pay all stock to buy their competitor, whoever.com, for 25x this year's earnings. The acquisition is neither dilutive nor accretive. It's neutral as far as earnings dilution is concerned.

See: Dilutive Acquisition. See: Accretive Acquisition.

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