Current Price: C$1.74
Merger Consideration: C$1.81
Upside: 4%
Estimated Closing: January 2020
This is a very short and time sensitive note on the Intrinsic Technologies acquisition by Lantronix.
Consideration stands at $0.55/share in cash + 0.2135 LTRX per each ITC share (cash is 40%). The transaction is very small ($27m) and currently in its final stage. Shareholders have already granted the approval (30th Dec) and only the court and customary conditions remain. The closing is estimated this month, yet 4% is still here for no apparent reason. Borrow is available and cheap (2.51% annually). Maybe the reason is the micro size of the transaction. Financing is in place. Recent liquidity is about 20k shares/day.
Both companies operate in IoT business.
For readers: note LTRX and the $0.55 in cash are both in USD. Seems the spread has closed.
Indeed – after yesterday’s -5% move in LTRX share price, the spread has closed for now.
The play would be to short LTRX and buy ITC in the appropriate proportion, right? There’s no way to do this by going long only?
You can go only long, but then you’re left exposed to LTRX price volatility. It is always best to hedge that risk.
Got it, thank you.
Merger has closed on the 16th of January.
LTRX rise 10% today