M&A interview questions
6 questions. Merger models, accretion and dilution, synergies, how a deal is paid for and how a sale is run. Each page takes one spoken answer from weak to strong.
- How do you tell whether an acquisition is accretive or dilutive?
- Walk me through a merger model.
- What are synergies, and which kind would you trust more?
- Would a buyer rather pay for an acquisition with cash, debt or stock?
- Walk me through a sell-side M&A process.
- Why would one company want to acquire another?
What these questions test
- Whether you can explain why a deal raises or lowers the buyer's earnings per share, with a quick rule and its limits.
- Whether you separate what a deal does to earnings per share from whether it creates value.
- Whether you know the steps of a deal well enough to say what an analyst does at each one.
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