date:Dec 10, 2013
f $65 billion.
The purchase price seems fairly reasonable. It is less than 10 times trailing 12-month EBITDA, and there are synergies that are expected to result from the deal, said Morningstar analyst Erin Lash.
United Natural Foods Inc, the next largest publicly listed food distributor, trades at about 14 times trailing EBITDA.
Sysco, which will assume US Foods' debt of $4.7 billion, said it expected about $600 million in annual cost savings within three to four years.
Both companies distr