In a pattern we have seen over and over, just months after simplifying its business by spinning off Suncoke(SXC), Sunoco(SUN) will be purchased by Energy Transfer Partners(ETP) in a deal announced this morning. This combination will create one of the largest and most diversified energy partnerships in the country by expanding ETP’s geographic footprint and strengthening its presence… Read More »
It was way back in June 2010, when Sunoco(SUN) first announced its intention to spin SunCoke(SXC) into a separate company. One year later, in July 2011, the company conducted an IPO of SunCoke shares. This week the company completed the process on January 17 by distributing the 80.9% of SunCoke shares it owned to shareholders at a rate… Read More »
After successfully completing an IPO this past July, Sunoco (SUN) announced that it is ready to move on to the second stage of its planned spinoff of SunCoke Energy (SXC). On January 17th, 2012 Sunoco will issue a special stock dividend distributing its remaining ~81% stake in SunCoke to shareholders as of January 5th. SUN shareholders will receive… Read More »
It looks like the SunCoke spinoff from Sunoco (SUN) might not be completed by the initial target date set by the company of 1H 2011. Ongoing litigation with one of their biggest customers, ArcelorMittal (MT – also a company on our spinoff radar), is the reason for the potential delay. Apparently, ArcelorMittal is claiming that SunCoke subsidiary Jewell… Read More »
Image via Wikipedia In my last post I took a look at the ‘rumor mill’, but sometimes you just don’t seem them coming (even if they make sense). In mid-June this year, Sunoco Inc (SUN) announced its plans to spin-off SunCoke Energy in the first half of 2011. Sunoco is principally a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals… Read More »