Is there any way to look out for businesses that have this done to them? I only ever hear about it when the company that's getting hollowed out runs into troubl

Is there any way to look out for businesses that have this done to them? I only ever hear about it when the company that's getting hollowed out runs into trouble some months or years later. I know such buyouts don't always crater the target company in the short term, but it would be nice to have a directory of zombified businesses somewhere so one knows to steer their investment and custom elsewhere.