Among the M&A programs used by the top 2,000 companies worldwide between 2010 and 2019, the programmatic approach proved successful across nearly all sectors of the economy in terms of total returns to shareholders (TRS). In the advanced industries sector, the programmatic M&A approach resulted in a median 5.9 percent TRS. This was followed by the transport, logistics, and infrastructure sector, wherein the programmatic approach resulted in a median two percent TRS. The organic M&A approach proved to be the least performance-enhancing strategy out of the four selected approaches.
Median total returns to shareholders (TRS) using selected M&A approaches worldwide from 2010 to 2019, by sector
Companies headquartered in Africa and Latin America were excluded.
Supplementary notes
Companies that were among the top 2,000 companies by market cap (more than two billion U.S. dollars) on Dec 31, 2009, and were still trading as of Dec 31, 2019.
** For selective and organic: small sample size (n=5).
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