What a week for spinoffs. Truly historic. Beginning on Monday with TEGNA (TGNA)/Gannett (GCI), the ‘Summer of Spin’ crescendoed yesterday with the completion of six more spins: DuPont (DD) spun off its performance chemicals unit (including Teflon) into Chemours (CC). The new company told investors it plans on paying out a stable dividend, which is somewhat unusual for such… Read More »
The ‘Summer of Spin’ rolls on and yesterday witnessed the completion of three more spin offs: Masco (MAS) separated its installations and services into TopBuild (BLD) TriMas (TRS) spun off its former Cequent units as Horizon Global (HZN) Babcock & Wilcox (BWC) changed its name to BWX Technologies (BWXT) and spun off its power generation unit as Babcock &… Read More »
Calling all spinoff lovers – it’s time to get your hard hats on because the end of this month is going to be crazy. Just call it the ‘Summer of Spin’. In the somewhat improbable five plus years we have been running this site (and I am willing to bet over the course of history), there has never… Read More »
Integra LifeSciences (IART) unveiled plans to spin off its Spine business into a standalone company late last year. The move was billed as a ‘strategic portfolio realignment’ and part of the company’s ‘larger transformation strategy’ to optimize their businesses and accelerate growth. Roughly eight months later, the SeaSpine spinoff is ready to go and has been approved by the… Read More »