Replies to post #15042 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[DewDiligence]

Re: DHR

...does Abbot buying St.Jude give you thoughts and hopes of DHR being bought?

DHR isn't going to be bought by anybody, IMO, but it will do some buying itself. Here's a timeline of DHR's acquisitions since 1999:


The company-altering deal was the acquisition of Pall, which precipitated the spinoff of FTV (DHR's industrial business) and turned DHR into a healthcare 'TGDT' company (#msg-132443173).

p.s. DHR and ABT overlap only in diagnostics, which comprises about 25% of both companies' sales.