Is M&A in Small-Caps Accelerating?
M&A activity has picked up. I don't know if it signals a new trend but I do think it really gives a lot of proof to what we're thinking, which is that things are very, very undervalued.
Growth is very hard to come by, so if you're a bigger company and you're looking to keep up a growth rate or if you're looking to expand your businesses in any way, not just domestically or overseas but any way at all, the best way to do it is to buy something right now.
Prices are cheap. The companies that you're buying tend to have really, really good balance sheets. A lot of the ugly work has been done about restructuring.
So you're buying things that have great margin outlooks, great balance sheets and you're getting them at a great price. Will that lead to more M&A? I really think it will, especially in the small cap area.
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