Author Archives: Inelegant Investor
Corteva has set the final terms and dates for the Vylor spinoff. Shareholders of Corteva (NYSE: CTVA) as of September 24 will receive one share of Vylor for every Corteva share they own. The distribution is scheduled for October 1, and Vylor will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under VYLR. Seven years after Corteva was spun… Read More »
Genuine Parts Company ($GPC) filled in another important piece of its coming breakup on Wednesday, naming the executives who will run the Automotive and Industrial businesses after their planned separation in the first quarter of 2027. Current GPC CEO Will Stengel will go with the Industrial business, which will retain the Motion name, while former Grainger executive Court… Read More »
The headline transaction is easy enough to understand. Tamarack Valley Energy (TSX: TVE) and Headwater Exploration (TSX: HWX) are combining in an all-stock merger valued at roughly C$10 billion, creating by far the largest publicly traded producer focused entirely on Alberta’s Clearwater. The rest of the deal takes considerably more work. Headwater shareholders will receive one Tamarack share… Read More »
KBR ($KBR) has put a date on the separation of its government technology business. The company is targeting January 4, 2027 for the spin-off of Mission Technology Solutions, which will become an independent public company called Trinzic. The date is the first business day of KBR’s 2027 fiscal year. The transaction is intended to be tax-free to KBR… Read More »
On the heels of their Knicks finally winning it all, the Dolans are spinning again. Sixteen years after Cablevision sent Madison Square Garden out on its own, the collection of sports, media and entertainment assets once housed inside the cable company has been divided, recombined and divided again into an increasingly elaborate family tree of public companies. Now… Read More »
Honeywell’s first earnings release after the Aerospace spinoff requires a little subtraction. The headline numbers — $9.7 billion of sales and $4.52 of adjusted earnings per share — still include Honeywell Aerospace, even though HONA has been trading on its own since June 29. The numbers for the company that now trades under HON are smaller and more… Read More »
GE Vernova is the kind of spinoff that makes conglomerate breakup arguments much easier to defend. Then Wind shows up and reminds everyone why the breakup was necessary in the first place. The former GE power business reported a strong second quarter, raised full-year revenue and free-cash-flow guidance, and ended the quarter with a $176 billion backlog. Orders… Read More »
Eaton has found a home for Mobility. The company had already planned a spinoff of its Mobility Group. Now the spinoff plan has changed. Eaton will spin off Mobility and combine it with Dana Incorporated in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction. A Reverse Morris Trust transaction allows a company to sell a division and avoid paying taxes on… Read More »
Resideo was always an awful name. It’s almost as though Honeywell didn’t expect the company to stay independent when it completed the spinoff in 2018 and just used a throwaway name. Though in reality they probably spent millions on a branding agency which subcontracted to a precocious six year old for an extra piece of cake after dinner.… Read More »
Middleby completed the spinoff of its Food Processing business on July 6. The new company, Midera Food Processing, begins regular-way trading today on Nasdaq under the ticker MFP. Middleby shareholders received one Midera share for each Middleby share held as of the June 26 record date. Middleby’s completion announcement is here. We wrote about the planned separation last… Read More »
Solstice Advanced Materials is wasting little time as an independent company. Less than a year after Honeywell completed the Solstice spinoff, Solstice agreed to acquire Element Solutions in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion, including the assumption of net debt. Element shareholders will receive $10 in cash and 0.500 shares of Solstice common stock for each… Read More »
Verizon is leaving the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Alphabet is taking its place. At first glance, this is just a routine index change. The Dow is price-weighted, Verizon’s share price is low, and Alphabet gives the average more exposure to the businesses that now dominate the communications sector: search, cloud, artificial intelligence, YouTube, Android and digital advertising.… Read More »
Comcast is not finished taking itself apart. The company completed the Versant spinoff earlier this year, separating cable networks such as CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network, E!, Syfy, Oxygen, Golf Channel, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes and related assets into a standalone public company. Now Comcast is going bigger. Comcast announced plans to separate NBCUniversal and Sky into a new publicly… Read More »
Update — June 29: Honeywell Aerospace has begun regular-way trading on Nasdaq under HONA after the completion of the Honeywell Aerospace spinoff. Honeywell Technologies continues under HON following the planned 1-for-2 reverse split. HONA is joining the S&P 500 and S&P 100, while Honeywell Technologies remains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Honeywell Aerospace… Read More »
Not every announced spinoff reaches the finish line as a clean distribution. Some get paused or cancelled. Some get sold. Some turn into an IPO, a private-equity investment, and a much longer wait. This week’s roundup is about those almost-spinoffs: deals that are still worth watching, even if the original plan has changed. Kraft Heinz Puts The Breakup… Read More »