Months after the spinoff of its transportation unit and its subsequent merger with Wabtec(WAB), GE(GE) has sold 25.2 million shares of Wabtec stock in a public offering at $73.50 per share. The offering had originally been set at 12.5 million to 14.375 million shares but was quickly upsized, presumably due to robust interest. GE continues to own around… Read More »
Lets close the week with some Odds & Ends. In this week’s edition, we provide some updates on recent and upcoming spinoffs. We also give thanks to a reader for pointing out something we missed – keep it up! Thanks to reader AH for pointing out that we missed Naspers (NPSNY) spinoff of its Pay-TV business, MultiChoice Group… Read More »
Feedback was overwhelmingly positive to last month’s piece so we are going to make it a monthly ‘thing’. As a reminder, although we update our tables as new information is released, we recognize that not everyone is constantly hitting refresh in order to see when a distribution date might get posted (please do so in the future though).… Read More »
GE (GE) is set to close the restructured merger agreement for its transportation business with Wabtec (WAB) on February 25th. As a result, the 25th will also be the distribution date for GE’s transportation business spin off which will be immediately merged into Wabtec. The end result will be a more vertically integrated freight car business that is… Read More »
Based on reader suggestions we are going to try something new this month. We update our tables as new information is released, but we recognize that not everyone is constantly hitting refresh in order to see when a distribution date might get posted (please do so in the future though). Going forward, at the end of every month… Read More »
With GE’s (GE) share price in freefall and concerns about its debt levels, the company began offloading assets left and right. One disposal arranged by short lived CEO John Flannery was the spinoff of its transportation business via Reverse Morris Trust by subsequently merging it with Wabtec (WAB) to form a leading freight car powerhouse. Manufacturing and servicing all done in… Read More »