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#The Wall Street Journal: Baxter International in advanced talks to buy Hill-Rom for $10 billion: report

#The Wall Street Journal: Baxter International in advanced talks to buy Hill-Rom for billion: report

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“#The Wall Street Journal: Baxter International in advanced talks to buy Hill-Rom for $10 billion: report”

Baxter International Inc.
BAX,
+0.27%
is in advanced talks to buy medical-equipment maker Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. for around $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

A deal that values Hill-Rom
HRC,
+0.96%
at around $150 a share could be reached by midweek assuming the talks don’t fall apart, the people said.

The talks follow an earlier bid from Baxter worth $144 a share that Hill-Rom rebuffed. Hill-Rom shares jumped in late July on news of that bid and have remained elevated, closing Friday at $132.90. Hill-Rom currently has a market capitalization of nearly $9 billion. Baxter’s is around $37 billion.

Chicago-based Hill-Rom, founded in 1915, makes medical gear such as hospital beds and patient-monitoring devices.

An expanded version of this report can be found at WSJ.com

Cara Lombardo

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