Baxter’s $10.5 bln deal is preventative medicine

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Acquiring Hill-Rom and its “connected” hospital beds should boost Baxter’s growth. A bigger benefit to the medical products maker may be building up defenses against powerful hospital chains and pressure to cut prices, rob_cyran says.

Baxter International said on Sept. 2 it had agreed to buy Hill-Rom for $10.5 billion, or $156 a share. Including debt, the deal is valued at $12.4 billion. Hill-Rom makes smart hospital beds, diagnostics and patient monitoring devices.

The price represents a 26% premium to Hill-Rom’s undisturbed closing stock price on July 27.A worker moves part of a delivery of 64 hospital beds from Hillrom to The Mount Sinai Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., March 31, 2020.

 

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