Economics

T-Mobile’s Sprint Deal Looks Iffy to Traders as Skepticism Grows

  • Spread on $26.5 billion deal at highest since announcement
  • Cowen analyst Gallant says states may have won court fight

   

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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Wall Street is increasingly pessimistic that T-Mobile US Inc. will complete its $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint Corp., with the spread on the deal at the highest point since it was announced in 2018.

The spread between T-Mobile’s offer price for Sprint and the trading price, an indication of the deal’s risk, has swelled to $2.85 a share on Thursday from a low of 53 cents in May 2018.