How to Use acquirer in a Sentence

acquirer

noun
  • This is what acquirers want to buy.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But in truth, the most important thing an acquirer wants to see is growth.
    — Jeremy Krell, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • To the acquirers, the local code, like the ground, is made to be broken.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025
  • That becomes clear to acquirers fast.
    — Shaun Fisher, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • At the time, the target harbored four times the revenues of the acquirer.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 May 2026
  • Make no mistake, the acquirer in this deal is Fifth Third.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The acquirers aren’t betting on which model wins.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • In December, the acquirer’s stock price dropped by half and killed that deal as well.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • Or, the company could put itself up for sale and let an acquirer sort out a future path.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
  • In the past decade or so, in only one case have its judges allowed the acquirer to terminate a deal.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
  • No deal that doubles a target’s stock price and wipes out most of an acquirer’s dry powder can be called a bargain.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • An investor can become an acquirer.
    — Daniela Schardinger, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The strategic acquirers already know this.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • So if First Republic is sold, then the acquirer would take on the deposits.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Then, work with those bankers to prepare a pitch deck telling the story of the company and shop it around to prospective acquirers.
    — Lewis Schiff, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • So, if First Republic is sold, then the acquirer would take on the deposits.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • In many tech deals, there is more often a harder road that ends in tears with a parting of ways between the acquirer and the acquired.
    — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 25 Sep. 2018
  • One reason for the buying spree is that acquirers want to apply climate analysis to their own books.
    — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The acquirer’s stock price might jump, too, if investors see the purchase as strategically smart.
    — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The acquirers were little changed, while the target companies surged.
    — Fiona Rutherford, Fortune Well, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And as detailed, Mondelez has been an active acquirer in recent years.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • When a deal is announced, arb funds go long the target and short the acquirer to hedge the stock component of the transaction.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • Whisper held talks last year with a potential acquirer, which decided not to move forward, a source said.
    — Paresh Dave, latimes.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Ukraine’s largest acquirer is PrivatBank, which has around two-thirds of the market.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Here, five key firms to know within beauty’s growing universe of distressed acquirers.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The acquirer and the target both research and understand each other.
    — Roman Gurskiy, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In this scenario, the FDIC could be looking for an acquirer now.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In still other cases, the eventual acquirers are startups of the same cohort.
    — Byandy Dunn, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • So acquirers are being creative.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But Bausch + Lomb is not the only potential acquirer.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025

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