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Buyer pays $100M for a target in an all-stock deal, but the market decides the target is only worth $50M. What happens?
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The buyer's share price falls by the per-share equivalent of the $50M overpayment. Specifically: market cap drops $50M; per-share decline = $50M / buyer's diluted share count.
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