The sale of the microscope manufacturer Tescan for hundreds of millions of dollars is in the final stage. The favorite is the American investment colossus
The executive director of Tescan, Jaroslav Klíma, is now finalizing negotiations on the sale of the company.
Nby the end of the year at the latest, the sale of the Brno group Tescan Orsay Holding, which is one of the five largest manufacturers of electron microscopes in the world, is to be closed. Several sources from the Central European mergers and acquisitions market agree on this.
A transaction is about to take place, the value of which, according to HN information, will be in the lower hundreds of millions of dollars. In crowns, the sum is calculated to be between seven and nine billion. “It will be closed as soon as possible,” says one of the sources. According to the source, this will be one of the five other transactions that will take place on the domestic market this year.
The company will be richly valued, as EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation) will exceed $16 million, according to HN. In crowns, it is more than 374 million. Thus, Tescan will be sold for approximately twenty times EBITDA, which exceeds experts’ estimates.
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