{"id":1141,"date":"2013-02-27T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-02-27T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:03:51","slug":"markel-and-alterra-shareholders-overwhelmingly-approved-the-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Markel and Alterra shareholders &#8220;overwhelmingly&#8221; approved the acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shareholders of Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL) and of Alterra Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: ALTE) approved &#8220;overwhelmingly&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/markel-alterra-shareholders-overwhelmingly-approve-160000705.html\" target=\"_blank\">the acquisition of Alterra by Markel <\/a>which in reality has more the character of a merger than an outright acquisition!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markel&#8217;s share price which suffered a lot after announcing the planned acquisition in December recovered since then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But at yesterday&#8217;s closing price of $ 492.16 Markel is still valued at only 1.2 times their December 2012 book value per share of $ 403.85\u00a0and the post acquisition combined price\/book value per share doesn&#8217;t look very different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So why not snap up some shares at this cheap price?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shareholders of Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL) and of Alterra Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: ALTE) approved &#8220;overwhelmingly&#8221; the acquisition of Alterra by Markel which in reality has more the character of a merger than an outright acquisition! Markel&#8217;s share price which suffered a lot after announcing the planned acquisition in December recovered since then. But at yesterday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}