From our report - ADT Sells Off Commercial Integration Business For $1.6 Billion - we highlighted ADT's management comment about its market valuation vs the Commercial businesses:
we we believe our stock valuation at approximately 6x EBITDA, doesn't doesn't reflect the intrinsic value of the company and we had an opportunity with a purchase price of $1.6 billion using the standalone costs. They the EBITDA multiple was 11.2X so there's an arbitrage a value unlock for ADT versus where the stock is trading today.
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