Why investors should be skeptical of a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger Why investors should be skeptical of a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger Researchers find most mergers historically have destroyed value. And this deal in particular would face numerous hurdles. Elon Musk said Tuesday that special committees at SpaceX and Tesla have been formed to explore a merger.
Wall Street is all abuzz over a possible merger between Tesla and SpaceX. But there is a high probability that such a merger would be a bad idea. That’s according to Feng Gu, a professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
Gu and Baruch Lev, a professor of accounting and finance at New York University, are authors of the recently published book “The M&A Failure Trap.” In that book they reported on their research that found that roughly 70% to 75% of the 40,000 M&A deals between 1980 and 2022 were failures — as judged by the merged company having a lower market cap after three years than what the uncombined companies would otherwise have been worth. Copyright ©2026 MarketWatch, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Mark Hulbert is a columnist for MarketWatch.
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