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- A Way to Play the InBev and Anheuser-Busch Takeover
- Andy Singh submits:The difficulty in closing funding for some recently concluded corporate takeovers has presented an arbitrage profit opportunity for investors willing to take some risk. In particular I refer to the $52 billion mega takeover of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch BUD, the company that is famous for Budweiser Beer, by...
- External links 2008-10-26
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- Merger Arbitrage Opportunity With Allied and Ares Capital
- The Curious Investor submits: In my prior post, “Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value,” I made the point that the Ares/Allied acquisition created a potentially interesting merger arbitrage opportunity. As astutely pointed out by commenter BeauZeau at Seeking Alpha, the merger arbitrage opportunity is not quite...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Merger Arbitrage Opportunity: Pfizer - Wyeth
- Asif Suria submits: If you are familiar with merger arbitrage, please feel free to skip straight ...
- External links 2009-03-08
- Berkshire Arbitrage Opportunity Eliminated: Is the Market 'Efficient'?
- Ravi Nagarajan submits: Over the past month, I wrote a few posts regarding potential arbitrage opportunities available due to discrepancies between the relative valuations of Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A (BRK.A) and Class B (BRK.B) shares. The arbitrage opportunity identified in these posts has now been entirely eliminated as a...
- External links 2009-03-26
- Put-Call Parity and Arbitrage Opportunity
- An important principle in options pricing is called put-call parity. It says that the value of a call option at one strike price implies a certain fair value for the corresponding put, and vice versa. The argument for this pricing relationship relies on the arbitrage opportunity that results if there...
- White papers 2005-01-19
- Constellation Energy: Merger Arbitrage Opportunity
- Dobromir Stoyanov submits: One of the four techniques implemented by Benjamin Graham was merger arbitrage. There’s been some good evidence that this strategy has worked for several decades for some value investors such as Graham and Buffett, producing double digit returns.Buffett had a nice discussion on his arbitrage experience with...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Sun Arbitrage: The Positive Implications of Negative News
- Vincent Fernando submits: In regards to the current Sun Microsystems JAVA risk arbitrage opportunity, (For those who missed it, they're being bought by Oracle ORCL), some recent bad news has really opened up the potential spread and this could mean a significant opportunity is ahead. What happened?...
- External links 2009-05-11
- Mellon seeks global arbitrage opportunity.
- Mellon HBV alternative strategies, a subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, has added a global risk arbitrage investment discipline to its fund management capabilities.The new strategy is a response to the acceleration of public company consolidations. According to MergerStat and Dealogic, a US-based mergers and acquisitions consultant,...
- Research articles 2002-08-05
- Does Pfizer / Wyeth Merger Create an Arbitrage Opportunity?
- Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Monday, the big news that moved markets was Pfizer’s PFE 68 billion dollar acquisition of rival Wyeth WYE. Pfizer will pay $33 in cash plus 0.985 shares of Pfizer stocks for each share of Wyeth. At Monday Wyeth closed at $43.39, which is 10.30% lower than the...
- External links 2009-01-27
- A Dual-Class Arbitrage in Berkshire Stock?
- Andy Kern submits: Hat tip to Ray for pointing this out to me. Last week, [[BRK.B]] was trading at a level significantly lower than 1/30 of [[BRK.A]]. In fact the spread represented 7% of the value of BRK.B. This was a decent arbitrage opportunity, as the two...
- External links 2009-03-01
- Limco-Piedmont: Compelling Opportunity
- Wide Moat Investing submits: THESIS: Limco-Piedmont Inc. LIMC, trading at less than 50% of book value and about 55% of net tangible assets, offers both a compelling merger arbitrage opportunity and the potential for long-term gains. However, this opportunity is best suited for small funds and individual investors, as...
- External links 2009-05-03
- Arbitrage Opportunity with Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Andrew Horowitz submits: On the heels of a few trading publications we saw the opportunity to take advantage of the spread differential between the Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG B Shares and the Chipotle Mexican Grill A shares. The A & B shares are fairly identical with the B shares...
- External links 2009-05-10
- Trading Gold for Silver
- David Morgan submits: In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. When used by academics, an arbitrage is...
- External links 2008-08-28
- Arbitrage: The Key to Pricing Options
- Arbitrage is the act of simultaneously buying and selling assets or commodities in an attempt to exploit a profitable opportunity. Although the idea behind arbitrage is fairly simple, it is quite powerful because the ability to exploit such opportunities is needed for markets to operate efficiently. Arbitrage ensures, for example,...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Natural Gas ETF Premium Reaches 20%: Time to Unload?
- Michael Johnston submits: The U.S. Natural Gas Fund UNG, which has been in the news constantly as the CFTC weighs its options for curbing what it deems to be excessive speculation in the commodities markets, continues to defy the tenets of rational investing. The fund opened Monday at a 20%...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Centennial Communications: Temporary Selloff Is a Buying Opportunity
- Yesterday Centennial Communications CYCL, which is in the process of being acquired by AT&T T for USD 944m or USD 8.5 cash per share offer, saw a 9.6% drop from USD 8.12 to USD 7.35 on the back of no news. The acquisition has already been approved by CYCL...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Retail Ventures Now Trading for Less than One of Its Own
- Saj Karsan submits: Retail Ventures RVI is a holding company that owns 63% of another public company, DSW Inc DSW. While RVI does have certain liabilities related to its divestitures of other businesses and its own corporate costs, its ownership in DSW is now the dominant determinant of RVI's value...
- External links 2009-08-07
- The Last Great Arbitrage: Exploiting the Buy-And-Hold Mutual Fund Investor
- This paper demonstrates that an institutional feature inherent in a multitude of mutual funds managing billions in assets generates fund NAVs that reflect stale prices. Since, in many cases, investors can trade at these NAVs with little or no transactions costs, there is an obvious trading opportunity. Simple, feasible strategies...
- White papers 2000-05-08
- A Blockbuster Arbitrage Opportunity
- Gary Lucido submits: There are a lot of things in this world that just don’t make sense to me. Add to that very long list the relative prices of Blockbuster’s two classes of stock - the A BBI and B (BBI.B) shares. According to the Blockbuster Web site the B...
- External links 2008-08-15
- Value and Arbitrage in Silverleaf Resorts
- Phillip Lyon submits: One of the first stocks I recommended on my website was Silverleaf Resorts SVLF. The stock was trading at low PE ratio and was also trading below book value. I recommended selling too early, but my recommendation still resulted in a gain of 18% in five months....
- External links 2008-08-21
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