1. Why might Bollenbach have opened his bidding for ITT at $55 per share? What was his likely strategy?
The $55 value is on the lower range of the analyst eztimates, with a best guess estimate of $67.94. Since the value of the stock had been below $45 for 4 months, the offer of 55 dollars represented a 29% premium to investors. Bollenbach knew that management would be resistant of any attempt to be acquired, regardless of price, because of failed previous attempts to negotiate a friendly merger at year end 1996. The 55-dollar benchmark created an expectation for ITT management to achieve that level, or higher and the premium is enough to demonstrate to investors it is a real offer. Their support will be key as they will have a vote deciding the fate of the poison pill provisions which need to be removed to make the deal necessary.
As the deal moves forward, Hilton has a great deal of room for negotiation with investors because their best guess value of ITT's operations is sill 20% higher than their initial bid. By beginning with a low bid, Hilton may risk another competitor entering into the bidding, but their market analysis shows no such competition for such a large deal. Because Hilton still has the ability to offer a higher bid later, and has a 5% stake in the business which would benefit from such competition, Hilton’s low bid says they are not afraid of such a situation.
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original offer was well received on Wall Street, but not by the entrenched ITT management. In an unlikely scenario, the bidding company’s stock price actually went up 10 percent since this acquisition made so much sense for Hilton. The offer was made in January, when ITT’s stock price was around 43 dollars.
2. Why did Bollenbach...
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...nt lies In the Investors, Bollenback should address the shareholders directly of the impending situation. It would be important to make sure they know that managements incentives are not necessarily the same as theirs, as can be seen by the lack of executive ownership at ITT. Investors must know about the haphazard changes management has taken in recent in order to improve their stock price. ITT management cited the interests of shareholders and ITT employees interests as reasons not to accept a bid, yet they recently cut 125 jobs, over half of their headquarters. Hilton has a plan to Increase value to shareholders though better capital structure, improved cash flows, and synergistic cuts. Additionally, they should be aware of the window of opportunity regarding the decision created by the alignment of management’s ending terms, as well as any other timing issues.
Grand Metropolitan PLC is the world’s largest wine and spirits seller. It mainly operated in London, USA. In 1991, it beats market expectation with a 4.8% increase in pretax profits, and the company Chairman stated that company’s goal “to constantly improve on”. Despite the great performance in the world recession in 1991, the price of GrandMet shares was 10% below the average price/earnings ratio of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. And more important, rumors had that GrandMet, valued at more than $14 billion in the stock market, maybe a takeover target. The management dilemma is to understand why the company’s stock is traded below of what considered being the right price and whether the company is truly being undervalued by the market or there are consistent issues with negative NPV projects and lines of businesses.
The stock price is currently 103.31, down from a recent high of 121.50. The P/E ratio is declining at 28 and beta at .67, which is expected to grow closer to 1.0. A recent earnings surprise last December yielded a 15% difference from the lower expectations and the latest earnings reports late last month also surprised investors. Estimates for the 2000 fiscal year are being raised by a large majority of analyst who believe that earnings per share will increase and the stock price will reach close to 150.
Robert Zimmerman, the senior vice president of business development, for American Cable Communications (ACC) was in the process of looking for a potential acquisition target for ACC. In December 2007, Zimmerman remember a presentation that was made recently by Rubinstein & Ross (R&R). R&R was a boutique investment bank that was well known for doing deals in the media and telecommunications area. During this presentation it was suggested that ACC buy out AirThread Connections (AirThread) which is a large regional cellular provider. The current industry of these companies were moving more toward bundled service offerings and by adding AirThread it would help ACC cover an area of service it does not currently offer. In order to determine if the acquisition should be done an analysis needs to be done.
Mondavi’s stock appears to be over valued by approximately 100% compared to 1997 and 1998’s per share market value. According to the EPS ratio, such over valuation appears to be consistent from ’97 to ’98, according to the EPS ratio. Therefore, it seems that investors would be hesitant to purchase Mondavi’s stock.
Comparing both the charts above I think the target price of $32.50 is accurate for the company’s stock.
For the Balanced Scorecard section I have set up a table, which includes a strategic plan and management system to align our business activities to the mission and vision of the Hilton Worldwide brands, developed strategies to improve the internal and external communications for our location, and ways to monitor the performance over the next year. The chart will be organized into a strategy map to allow its users visual ideas of where the perspective plans connect. Subsequently, as you will see with the attached document for the 2013 Operating Budget, the hotel has revenues totally over $105,000,000 and a net operating profit of about $45,500,000 as of this year. Along with the P&L Statement, other revenue generating departments will be discussed thoroughly with estimated expenses and revenues displayed, and finished with an assessment of local comp...
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