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astina 发表于 2015-6-28 22:39 
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Woolworths stock up on takeover rumours
MURMURS of a takeover tilt for beaten-down supermarket giant Woolworths have propelled shares in the group to their strongest session in more than five years.
Fresh from parting ways with embattled chief executive Grant O’Brien, Woolworths put on 3.8 per cent to $27.39 – its best day since February 2010 – after reports suggested US equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts was preparing a takeover offer.
According to the report, KKR is close to assembling a bid for consideration of the Woolworths board, led by chairman Ralph Waters.
Despite having a market value of $34 billion, Australia’s biggest supermarket chain has been under pressure from a host of competitors, including Coles and German-owned Aldi, and its own shareholders amid a series of writedowns and weak sales results.
Mr O’Brien last week announced his retirement as the retailer flagged 1200 job cuts and a reduced full-year net profit of $2.15 billion after writedowns and one-off costs, down from $2.45 billion a year earlier.
The retailer’s much-vaunted hardware joint venture, Masters, continues to haemorrhage cash and be pounded on market share by Wesfarmers-owned rival Bunnings.
Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the combination of disrupted management, weakened share price and favourable currency equation for a US raider meant Woolworths was “ripe to go onto the menu for private equity”.
“It’s over 20 per cent down in just a few months, that’s a huge fall for a top 10 stock.
“With the assets it’s got, maybe someone else thinks they can run it better,” he said.
KKR is no stranger to deal-making in Australia, having previously knocked on the doors of Pacific Brands in 2012 and Foster’s spinoff, Treasury Wine Estates, last year without coming to an agreement.
Woolworths spokeswoman Claire Kimball yesterday said the company would not comment on speculation.
It was the standout stock on an otherwise gloomy day for the benchmark ASX 200 index, which shed 1.5 per cent as options traders closed out their end-of-financial-year positions.
Heightened expectations of US interest rate rises and fresh fears over Greece’s looming debt deadline also sent investors scurrying for the exit.
The ugly session wiped more than $23 billion from the value of the nation’s top listed companies.
Figures out of the US overnight on Thursday revealed consumer spending shot up 0.9 per cent in May, its biggest monthly rise in nearly six years.
CMC Markets chief market analyst Michael McCarthy said the days of the US consumer driving global demand could be returning.
“The interest rate markets look to be pricing one rise this year whereas the Fed (US Federal Reserve) has been flagging the desire to get started and expectations are implying two rises this year,” Mr McCarthy said. |
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