Buyout firms fishing for stock-market rejects


WHERE stock-market investors see digital disruption, buyout firms see opportunity.

The cheap valuations of strategically challenged stocks are proving a draw to private equity firms. But the corporate prey are hardly soft targets: Traditional takeover premiums are – rightly – proving inadequate for some beaten-down shares.

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