Borders, Still Dirt Cheap, Jumps as Goldman Hopes for BN Buy We’ve always regarded it as a poverty of imagination that Barnes & Noble is often tipped as a potential acquirer of Borders, and they strike us as among the least likely of acquirers. But Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler wrote in a report yesterday “we see improved prospects for a deal,” and that “Barnes & Noble could generate significant accretion from an acquisition of Borders.” As Bloomberg reports, “Barnes & Noble may add more than 10 percent to profit if it paid as much as $13 a share for […]
