Close the acquisition of ARAG Group
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 26 Jun 2023
- Due
- 31 Oct 2023
- Delivered
- 24 Aug 2023
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transaction is expected to close in Nordson’s fourth quarter fiscal 2023”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Nordson Corporation completed the acquisition of the ARAG Group on August 24, 2023, which falls within the company's fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023.
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A Nordson Corporation 10-Q filed 2024-02-22
“On August 24, 2023, the Company completed the acquisition of the ARAG Group and its subsidiaries” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (21 Feb 2024 to 26 Feb 2024). What this measures
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift -61 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 26 Jun 2023
Deadline 31 Oct 2023 (“in Nordson’s fourth quarter fiscal 2023”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 21 Aug 2023
Deadline 31 Aug 2023 (“late August”)
“the acquisition of the ARAG Group, which is forecasted to close in late August.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- acquisition of ARAG Group
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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