---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-025607"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BBBY"
cik: "0001130713"
company_name: "BED BATH & BEYOND, INC."
filed_at: "2026-06-17T21:19:29+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T21:20:12.482715+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bed Bath & Beyond to acquire Fathom Holdings in stock-for-stock merger

## Summary
- Each FTHM share converts into 0.2236 shares of BBBY common stock at closing.
- Termination fee of $2M payable by FTHM under certain circumstances; expense reimbursement up to $1M.
- Outside date for closing is December 16, 2026, subject to extension.
- Merger requires FTHM stockholder approval, SEC S-4 effectiveness, and NYSE listing.
- Voting agreements support merger from certain FTHM stockholders covering their shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-025607
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BBBY
- cik: 0001130713
- company_name: BED BATH & BEYOND, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-06-17T21:19:29+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036126025607/0001140361-26-025607-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036126025607/ef20076327_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-025607.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  BED BATH & BEYOND, INC. entered into Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization with Fathom Holdings Inc. (effective 2026-06-16).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Fathom Holdings Inc.
  - Effective: 2026-06-16
  source text: On June 16, 2026, Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), entered into a Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “ Merger Agreement ”), by and among the Company, Fathom Merger Sub, Inc., a North Carolina corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Fathom Holdings Inc., a North Carolina corporation (“ FTHM ”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/000114036126025607/0001140361-26-025607-index.htm

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