Please find below a table of Comparable acquisitions in the past...

Please find below a table of Comparable acquisitions in the past 24 months..I've copied from an excel spread so not quite sure how it will come out but here goes...will post analysis of this table after this post...if its doesn't work I'll try to put it up on the net with a link

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(All figures USD millions unless otherwise stated)
Target Aquirer Date of Acquisition Scrip/Cash Consideration- Enterprise value Net (debt) /cash Market Value Takeover premium LQ Sales annualised EV/Sales LQ EBIT annualised EV/EBIT

Digene Inc Qiagen NV Jun-07 Scrip/Cash 1,439.6 168.4 1,608.0 37% 208.3 6.9 27.8 51.8
Thirdwave Technologies Inc Hologic Inc Jun-08 Cash 554.6 12.9 567.5 24% 33.6 16.5 -28.2 nmf
Innogenetics plc Solvay Cash 296.2 20.9 317.1 61% 77.1 3.8 5.7 52.1
Private Co China Medical Technologies Cash 345.0 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a