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Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $205 a share, a $23.7B bet on design-to-factory software

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PTC and Schneider Electric said in a joint announcement on Oct 5 that Schneider will acquire PTC for $205 per share in cash, valuing its equity at about $22.6 billion and the enterprise at $23.7 billion, a 42.3% premium to PTC's last close.

The deal needs PTC shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close by the third quarter of 2027; Schneider plans to fund it with a committed bridge from Morgan Stanley and Société Générale, about EUR5 billion to EUR6 billion of new equity and EUR16 billion to EUR17 billion of new debt.

Interact Analysis argued in a commentary carried by The Robot Report that PTC's CAD, PLM and service software gives Schneider a digital thread from design to operations to rival Siemens, provided it can integrate the data.

At $23.7 billion it is almost three times the roughly $8.2 billion AMD agreed to pay for World Labs, the largest physical-AI deal MEKAWIRE covered last month.

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