For Charles Schwab purchasing TD Ameritrade:

S. Comment on the following suggestion of playing the "relative PIE game" and "Bootstrapping" _ For your calculation assumptions: suppose that acquirer's shareholders have agreed to an exchange ratio of 1 share of acquirer for every 2 shares of target com_ Also: assume that the combined net income of the two firms is the sum of their net incomes prior to the completion of the deal.