Commentary on the recent Jarden decision has focused, unsurprisingly, on the use of unaffected stock price in the decision after some commentators viewed the methodology as dead after Aruba. As a recap, unaffected stock price methodology involves determining the fair value of an acquired company using its stock price before the merger announcement.
By a July 19, 2019 ruling, Vice Chancellor Slights set the fair value of Jarden Corporation at its unaffected market price of $48.31, below the $59.21 per share value of cash and stock that Newell Rubbermaid had paid to acquire it. The court also performed a DCF analysis that corroborated its valuation. The court
Vice Chancellor Slights has decided the Jarden appraisal case, a claim stemming from the 2016 sale of Jarden to Newell Rubbermaid Corp. In the opinion, the Vice Chancellor ultimately awarded below merger price, relying on a number of factors and discussing the interplay of merger price, unaffected stock price, discounted cash flow analysis and