Veolia Should Avoid a $3.5 Billion Suez Crisis

(Bloomberg Opinion) — A 19% one-day jump in a company’s stock price in the current pandemic-driven recession is the kind of thing you’d expect from the U.S. tech sector, not the staid world of European utilities.Still, that’s what France’s Suez SA, whose business is water treatment and waste management, delivered on Monday after rival Veolia Environnement SA offered more than 2.9 billion euros ($3.5 billion) for 29.9% of the firm.The stake, currently held by gas utility Engie SA, is just the appetizer. Veolia’s boss, Antoine Frerot, is proposing to eventually swallow all of Suez and build a “world champion” with …read more

Source:: Yahoo Finance

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