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Economy · settles by Dec 31, 2026

Which companies will be acquired before 2027?

$18.4M traded on Polymarket, $1K in the past day.

Perplexity AI
11.0%
24h 0.07d ▲1.0
Viking Therapeutics
10.5%
24h 0.07d ▲0.5

How it has moved

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About this market

Who prices it. $18.4M has changed hands on Polymarket since it opened, $1K of it in the past day, with $127K in resting orders. The gap between the best buy and sell price on Perplexity AI is 2 points, so the quoted price is a fair read.

Other venues. Polymarket is the only venue we track that lists this exact question, so there's no second price to check it against.

What has moved it. No outcome has moved past our alert threshold in the past week.

What would change it. The fixed date is the deadline: it settles by December 31, 2026, 73 days away. Before then the price should mainly move on news that touches the rules below.

How it settles, in short. This market will resolve to “Yes” if credible reporting confirms that any entity enters into an agreement to acquire the listed company by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”. Mergers where the listed company is subsumed by another entity will count toward a "Yes" resolution.

Every outcome

11.0%Perplexity AI▲1.0 7d
10.5%Viking Therapeutics▲0.5 7d
10.0%PayPal▼1.0 7d
8.0%MGM Resorts▼0.5 7d
6.5%Brown-Forman▲0.5 7d
6.2%Zoom Video Communications0.0 7d
4.7%Snapchat▼0.1 7d
4.5%BP▲0.1 7d
4.5%Lovable▼0.1 7d
4.3%GitLab▼1.0 7d
2.4%Nebius Group▲0.1 7d
2.1%Anthropic0.0 7d
2.0%Ubisoft▼0.1 7d
1.4%OpenAI▼0.1 7d

In the news

No headline in the past two days has matched this market.