- With the aim of enhancing its presence in the home care market, C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) acquires Liberator Medical Holdings (NYSEMKT:LBMH), a direct-to-consumer distributor of Durable Medical Equipment (DME), for $3.35 per share (~$181M).
- Liberator sells general medical supplies including urological catheters, ostomy products, mastectomy fashions, diabetic supplies and a modest amount of Bard's products.
- The transaction, which will add ~$70M to Bard's top line and be slightly accretive to non-GAAP EPS in 2016, should close in Q1. Starting in 2017, the acquisition will add between five and ten cents to non-GAAP cash EPS.
- LBMH is up 25% premarket.