Corteva Reportedly Planning Pesticides Spinoff — Undoing DowDuPont’s “Most Complicated Action” The “most complicated action in corporate history” may be on the verge of getting still more complicated. Back in 2019, DowDuPont completed the spinoff of Corteva(CTVA). That deal was the culmination of a frenetic few years of corporate machinations. Dow and DuPont merged, shuffled businesses around, then… Read More »
DuPont(DD) has been no stranger to spinoffs. Following the 2015 spinoff of Chemours(CC), DuPont merged with Dow Chemical in preparation for a three-way split executed earlier this year, leaving DuPont, Dow Chemical(DOW) and Corteva(CTVA) as independent companies. But there is no rest for the weary. Citigroup analyst P.J. Juvekar believes there is more to come. “We expect DuPont… Read More »
Perhaps readers thought that the DowDupont spinoff was beaten to death and were glad to see the final spinoff date pass. Sorry to disappoint, but there’s still more to say on the subject (and likely will be for some time!). In this week’s Odds and Ends we catch up on some of the recent action: 1. DuPont Gets… Read More »
A recent piece in Barron’s notes that “Sanford Bernstein analyst Jonas Oxgaard recently called the DowDuPont merger and 3-way split the “most complicated action in corporate history.”” It goes on to note, regarding the scale of the transactions: Oxgaard’s claim is difficult to verify, but it doesn’t feel far from the truth. Consider, legacy-Dow and legacy-duPont announced their intention to form the largest… Read More »
The upcoming spinoff of Corteva Agrisciences on June 1st is the final step of DowDupont’s (DWDP) breakup. You may have heard us talk about it once or twice or…it’s not important. As a reminder though, Corteva will trade under the ticker ‘CTVA’ and DWDP shareholders should receive 1 share of CTVA stock for every 3 DWDP shares owned.… Read More »
It seem like just last month that DowDuPont(DWDP) completed the spinoff of Dow(DOW). As was planned from the moment Dow and DuPont merged just a few short years ago, DowDuPont has one more spinoff to complete before it changes its name back to DuPont(or DuPont de Nemours, Inc., to be precise), and its ticker back to DD. DowDuPont’s… Read More »
Another month is almost in the books so lets recap the recent spinoff activity and also take a look at what spinoffs the next month will bring: Spinoffs Completed Prior Month Some big spinoffs in April. April 1st – after several years of merger integration work, DowDupont (DWDP) began breaking itself up last month with the spin off… Read More »
We thought it was unusual that Dow and Dupont merged into DowDuPont(DWDP) with the plan from the start being to break back up into three companies: Dow(DOW), DuPont, and Corteva. Yet here we are not a month later discussing a similar situation. Last year, Tenneco(TEN) purchased Federal Mogul from Carl Icahn with plans to spinoff the combined aftermarket… Read More »
Earlier this month DowDuPont (DWDP) began its ‘slim down’ phase with the spinoff of the new Dow Corporation (DOW). The new company received lots of love from the index community. It replaced DowDuPont in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a member of the S&P 500 index. Now it is seemingly also the darling of the… Read More »
Some combinations are long-lived. Procter & Gamble(PG) became partners in 1837. Others are over before they began. Dow and DuPont merged 18 months ago to form DowDuPont(DWDP). From the time the deal was announced 18 months earlier, they planned to break up. Now, after shuffling around some businesses, they have taken the first step in their breakup process.… Read More »
DowDuPont(DWDP) celebrates its last trading day intact today. After the bell, it will spin off Dow(DOW), and on June 1, it will spin off its agriscience business as Corteva. Shareholders will receive one share of Dow stock tonight for every three shares of DowDuPont stock owned. It has been a complicated road to get here. CEO Ed Breen… Read More »
A title pairing Robert Zimmerman and Madonna Louise Ciccone- too much? No matter, we’re having fun. DowDuPont(DWDP) is as well, with two spins coming up, the first in just weeks. It was just 36 months ago that Dow and DuPont announced their merger, and just 18 months ago when it closed. All along, they intended to split into… Read More »