{"id":788,"date":"2021-03-25T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=788"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:23:45","slug":"u-s-tech-companies-use-their-expensive-stock-to-pay-for-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/u-s-tech-companies-use-their-expensive-stock-to-pay-for-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tech companies use their expensive stock to pay for acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Cash may be king, but stock is queen in the land of technology mergers and acquisitions during a pandemic-fueled tech boom.<\/p>\n

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Close to half the U.S. deals in the sector included a stock consideration last year, the highest percentage since 2016, versus only 27% in 2019, according to financial data provider Refinitiv.<\/p>\n

By comparison, 39.5% of deals across all sectors used stock last year. The tech trend continued into 2021 as half of the deals in the sector announced in the first quarter also used stock.<\/p>\n