On: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

[tonyedgecombe]

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.

[JAlexoid → tonyedgecombe]

There's a presumption that companies engaged in M&A would have been executing as well as historically.

Basically - it's an unscientific opinion

[tonyedgecombe → JAlexoid]

Well that could go either way couldn't it.