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Lavendon - Unsolicited bid and counterbid!

December 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • LVD
  • Price:
  • 204p
Patience finally paid off after Lavendon received a  cash bid from Belgian industrial equipment supplier TVH Group at 205p a share, which values the business at £348m (enterprise value  of £506m). TVH has however only received acceptances accounting for 12.3% of the equity and therefore the bid has not received board approval. M&G, which holds 19%, has little interest in the present offer which values it on a forward EV/EBITDA of 4.7x and compares with a 4.6x forward multiple over the last three years. Separately, however, Lavendon has also unveiled it is in talks with France’s Loxam about a counterbid.The undervaluation has persisted for so long but nice to see it all come together. Await develo ...

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