Schneider Electric\u2019s office on the EUREF-Campus in Berlin-Sch\u00f6neberg, June 2022. Credit: Photo: IgorCalzone1 \/ CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (\u20ac20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the deal\u00a0on Monday morning. The announcement came a day after the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0first reported that the two companies were close to an agreement, at a price of about $20bn.<\/p>\n
Under the final terms, Schneider will pay $205 for each PTC share. That is a 42.3% premium to PTC\u2019s Friday closing price of $144.03, the company said. Including debt, the deal values PTC at about $23.7bn. It is Schneider\u2019s largest acquisition to date,\u00a0Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n
Its previous biggest software deal was the buyout of UK industrial software company Aveva, completed in 2023, which valued Aveva at about \u00a39.5bn. PTC, based in Boston, makes software that manufacturers use to design, build and service their products. It has more than 30,000 customers worldwide. \u201cThe acquisition of PTC represents an important step forward in our ambition to lead the new era of Energy and Industrial Intelligence,\u201d said Olivier Blum, Schneider\u2019s chief executive. PTC\u2019s board has approved the deal and will recommend it to shareholders.<\/p>\n
The companies expect to complete it by the third quarter of 2027, once regulators and PTC\u2019s shareholders have signed off. Schneider expects the deal to save about \u20ac250m a year by the third year after it closes, the company said. The purchase adds to a run of software deals. In June, Schneider agreed to buy\u00a0industrial AI firm Cognite\u00a0for $3.1bn and fold it into Aveva.<\/p>\n
That deal has not yet closed. Last month, it also made a \u20ac1.2bn\u00a0takeover offer\u00a0for Bulgarian smart-home device maker Shelly Group. Schneider will now publish its third-quarter revenue on October 16, earlier than planned, because of the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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