One takeover candidate is being replaced by the next in Deutsche Börse's small-cap index SDax. On Monday (January 13), the hospital software company Nexus $NXS will have to leave the index after the US financial investor TA Associates secured almost 95 percent of the Donaueschingen-based company.

This means that Nexus no longer meets the minimum free float of ten percent, which is a prerequisite for membership in the index, as the Deutsche Börse subsidiary ISS Stoxx announced on Wednesday evening.

Instead, the online fashion retailer About You
$YOU (-0,82 %) is returning to the SDax - but its days there are probably numbered. Because its much larger competitor Zalando $ZAL (-7,64 %) only announced a 1.13 billion euro takeover bid for About You in December and has already secured three quarters of the shares.

Source: Handelsblatt