No -- the companies in question aren't usually basket cases -- if they were, they wouldn't have the assets to make the PE takeover profitable in the first place

No -- the companies in question aren't usually basket cases -- if they were, they wouldn't have the assets to make the PE takeover profitable in the first place. In most cases, they're growing at a fine, steady rate, or even better. It's just whatever the PE vultures can get away with.