Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) introduced they’ve entered right into a definitive merger agreement. As a part of the deal, Amazon will purchase One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction which is able to worth the corporate at $3.9 billion. The settlement additionally contains One Medical’s web debt.
Completion of the transaction is topic to regulatory approval and approval from shareholders of One Medical. As soon as the acquisition is finalized, Amir Dan Rubin will stay as CEO of One Medical.
Why is Amazon Buying One Medical?
Amazon piloted its healthcare enterprise in 2019 to offer digital pressing care providers to its workers and their households in Seattle. This summer time, the corporate supplied its digital healthcare package deal to corporations and prospects nationwide. It is usually on observe to ship its hybrid care mannequin to an extra 20 cities this yr.
Two of Amazon’s 4 ideas are its ardour for innovation and long-term considering. Telehealth is a large and quickly rising market, because the healthcare trade is plagued with forms and lengthy ready lists. By buying an organization that has solidified its place within the trade, Amazon might be higher positioned to broaden its choices and combine its providers for buyer comfort, permitting it to raised compete with the market chief, Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC) — an organization that Amazon apparently signed a partnership with earlier this year.
SVP of Amazon Well being Companies, Neil Lindsey mentioned:
“We predict healthcare is excessive on the record of experiences that want reinvention…. Along with One Medical’s human-centered and technology-powered method to healthcare, we imagine we are able to and can assist folks get higher care.”
What does the takeover imply for buyers of One Medical?
One Medical’s share value exploded by 69% to $17.22, from Wednesday’s shut of $10.18. If One Medical’s shareholders comply with the takeover supply and the regulators give the inexperienced gentle, then buyers within the firm will obtain $18 for each share they personal, which is under the corporate’s share value at first of the yr by $0.19.
Nonetheless, on common, it takes 6-12 months to amass an organization, so shareholders must wait some time to obtain fee. If the deal goes forward it’ll eradicate all short-term volatility for buyers as they’re already assured a hard and fast value for his or her shares on the finish of the interval.
