October 15, 1998
Inside Business Week's "Inside Wall Street"
by Louis Corrigan (TMF Seymor)
Rumored Takeovers
TARGET |
TICKER |
ACQUIRER |
PRICE ON |
PRICE 6 MOS. |
PRICE |
Helix |
HELX |
? |
15 7/8 |
18 7/8 |
7 7/8 |
Fay's |
FAY |
Walgreen's |
7 3/4 |
7 7/8 |
*12 5/8 |
Smith's Food |
SFD |
American Stores |
27 3/8 |
24 3/8 |
**54 3/4 |
Galoob Toys |
GAL |
? |
10 1/2 |
26 1/8 |
11 3/8 |
HealthSouth |
HRC |
Columbia/HCA |
15 11/16 |
16 1/2 |
8 7/8 |
Roberts Pharm. |
RPC |
European pharma. |
22 5/16 |
17 1/8 |
17 3/8 |
American Exp. |
AXP |
(GE) |
40 3/4 |
43 1/8 |
71 1/2 |
Angeoin |
ANGN |
St. Jude Med. |
9 |
6 1/2 |
1 3/8 |
Glasgal Comm. |
GLAS |
EDS |
8 7/8 |
6 9/16 |
***2 1/8 |
General Mot. |
GM |
KKR LBO? |
51 3/8 |
50 7/8 |
49 3/16 |
Eastman Chem. |
EMN |
Dow or Hoechst |
67 1/4 |
51 5/8 |
50 5/8 |
* Last price 10/11/96; acquired by JC Penney (JCP) |
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**Last price 9/9/97; merged with Fred Meyer (FMY) |
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***Now Datatec Systems (DATC) |
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