Eidos Therapeutics (EIDX.US), the US biotech company, is surging today. Stock is trading around 40% above Friday's closing price after BridgeBio Pharma, the US company focused on genetics diseases, announced that it will acquire Eidos. BridgeBio will buy around 36.3% of Eidos (all outstanding shares it does not own yet). Eidos shareholders will get to choose whether they want to receive BridgeBio shares as a payment or prefer cash. They may choose to receive 1.85 BridgeBio shares per each Eidos share they own or to receive $73.26 per share. Deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021. The deal values Eidos at $2.8 billion.
Following today's huge gap at the open, share price of Eidos Therapeutics (EIDX.US) not only jumped above a resistance at 61.8% retracement of early-year drop but also painted a fresh all-time high. Stock is trading around 10% above an all-time high reached in mid-December 2019 and the closest resistance can be found at 161.8% exterior retracement ($90.50 area). Source: xStation5
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