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How many times can they keep raising money to do that? There's not endless liquidity in the system (until rates go to zero again).
by BetaDeltaAlpha 3y ago
How many times can they keep raising money to do that?
There's not endless liquidity in the system (until rates go to zero again).
- stefan_ 3y agoThese acquisitions end up paying for themselves. Just look at semiconductors, where some of the only "value creation" is in ever bigger companies buying each other. You have Analog Devices buying Linear Technology for $14B in 2017, then buying Maxim for $20B in 2021, both of them massive competitors and themselves the result of countless acquisitions over the years. And it repeats all over, Intel buying Altera, AMD buying Xilinx, NXP merging with Freescale..
- mrguyorama 3y agoYou don't need to raise money to do that, because your profits being high from lack of competition allows you to build up a nice war chest, then spend it on protecting that lack of competition. It's not difficult at all, it's literally how every single area of commerce right now is owned by like two giant conglomerates. From tools to bathroom cleaners to crackers.