Earnings Season M&A

[monstimal]

I see MUSA and ICGE were bought this morning by RS and GOOG respectively. I can't find any stats on this but what are your opinions on this observation: There are many more M&A announcements during earnigns seasons.
Do you agree with that? If that's true, is there a reason?

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from monstimal:
----MUSA and ICGE were bought this morning by RS and GOOG....
----opinions....
----more M&A announcements during earnings seasons?

1) You generally expect to see "bigger" mergers when the broad market is in multi-year, high territory.
2) The timing of the deals with respect to earnings season is random. Don't "read" anything into "it".