While individuals don’t have to worry about month or quarter end performance, it can be interesting to see which sectors or individual stocks have been performing exceptionally well or particularly poorly. It is even more interesting to us here when spinoff related names reside within those ‘best’ or ‘worst’ lists such as this past...
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We came across this gem recently while perusing a transcript of IAC/InterActiveCorp’s(IACI) 4th quarter conference call. Diller is indeed a veteran of many spinoffs, including Expedia(EXPE) and its new progeny, TripAdvisor(TRIP) Ross Sandler – RBC Capital Markets Just two quick questions. Barry on that theme of using the past to kind of look at...
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Viking Global Investors filed a 13G yesterday, declaring a 6% passive stake in TripAdvisor(TRIP). It appears that the entire stake was purchased quite recently, as former TripAdvisor parent Expedia(EXPE) does not appear in the firm’s most recent 13F-HR, filed on November 14. As far as we can tell, Viking has never filed a 13D...
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One of the more interesting (and attractive) attributes of spinoffs is that they don’t typically get a lot of attention from the media or ‘The Street’. Much rather talk about a birth (IPO) or a marriage (M&A) than a breakup. That has changed a bit over the past year though as several high profile...
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Confirming reports from Geekwire, AllThingsD learned from an Expedia (EXPE) spokesperson that Company President Scott Durchslag has resigned after 14 months on the job. The company said that CEO Dana Khosrowshahi would assume the additional role of President. Expedia CFO Michael Adler recently left after the completion of the TripAdvisor (TRIP) spinoff. Durchslag had...
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