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Dream Finders agreed to pay $33.50 a share, about $2.2 billion, for Beazer Homes after six proposals in six months. The price is below book value, and the bigger prize may be the mortgages Beazer buyers already take out elsewhere.

Amazon paid $13.7 billion for Whole Foods, kept the brand and the founder, and cut prices on Day 1. Nine years later, Whole Foods outlasted Amazon’s own grocery stores.