Mergers and Acquisitions

In this Liberalisation and Globalization era, Mergers and Acquisition strategies are mainly used by many companies. Growth is essence of life, which is inevitable, Mergers and Acquisitions is best strategy adopted by the corporate rather than starting new business or new business product line. The researcher has undertaken this current study to focus on the Profitability and the Performance of Mergers and Acquisition companies in India in pre and post periods. The researcher has made this attempt with the following objectives viz. to study the increasing and decreasing trends in various performance and profitability parameters, whether the profitability increases in post mergers and acquisitions period, whether performance of companies is improved in the post mergers and acquisitions period, whether Sales Turnover is showing the increasing trends and whether Market Value of share is increased in post merger period which is main indicator of wealth maximization. Mergers and Acquisitions of Sixteen (16) companies are considered for study purpose, the financial data of profitability, performance, sales and market value are classified and are presented in the Tables and Graphs which depicts the comparison data in pre and post mergers and acquisitions periods.