Greg Farris writes:

They'll probably be better off without Raytheon anyway ...

Not if the buyer is one of the three companies listed. Those are all
money-obsessed holding companies. All they care about is maximum cash
from one quarter to the next, and they don't care how they get it.

... assuming they find an acquisition deal that
allows them to develop a real growth strategy, and not to be broken up and sold
off for scrap metal.

They'll need to find different buyers if they don't want that.

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