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How Convenient! Couche-Tard Acquiring CST Brands

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After pressure from activist firm Engine Capital, CST Brands (CST), a 2013 spinoff from Valero (VLO), announced in early March that it was considering its strategic options. Based on this announcement, Jim Cramer was willing to give his blessing ‘to speculate’ on the name even though it wasn’t ‘exactly what you would call cheap’. While that hardly seemed… Read More »

Cramer Is A Fan Of Spinoffs And Speculating On CST Brands

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Judging by our tables and readership, spinoffs have become pretty popular and apparently, even Jim Cramer is a fan. Speaking on his show last week, Cramer exclaimed that he is ‘a huge backer of this break-up strategy, in part because the stock market prefers smaller, easy-to-understand, pure-play type companies over big, complicated conglomerates.’ Continuing with the spinoff theme, Cramer… Read More »