Comment / Against the odds: Cash-rich DSV & Mærsk languish – 'stronger together'?

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We’d probably agree that there’s never going to be another such sparkling moment in which DSV and AP Møller-Mærsk (APMM) will be as rich as they currently are – while languishing, however, on the stock market.

And with very few options to boost value by targeting rivals of a certain size.

Let’s toss the golden M&A coin.

Worth respectively $34.6bn (DSV) and $44.8bn (APMM) in market value, an all-stock merger of equals from Copenhagen would imply a 29.4% premium on DSV’s closing price ...