spinoffs

A spinoff takes place when a company decides to get rid of a portion of its asset base, possibly because it wants to focus its activities elsewhere, but is unable to sell the assets for a price that it feels reflects their value. Instead, the parent company sets the assets up as a separate company, then hands out shares in that publicly listed firm to its current investors.

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Domino’s soared to a new all-time high of $382 in mid-February. But even with the recent market fall, it has only dropped to where it was before that leap. The jump came from a stellar quarter of earnings spurred by changes that, coincidentally, will serve it very well in the current “social distancing” environment.


DOMINO’S PIZZA $290.00 (New York symbol DPZ; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.dominos.com; Shares o/s: 39.0 billion; Market cap: $11.3 billion; Divd....
Since COVID-19, Texas Roadhouse has dropped along with the market, but we think it’s well-positioned to weather the storm and then bounce back even stronger.


As concern over the COVID-19 virus spreads, it’s highly likely that people will visit restaurants less....
Subscriber update on April 3, 2020

We now see Luckin Coffee as a sell. The stock has dropped sharply on news that the company’s board of directors is investigating reports that senior executives and employees engaged in financial misconduct. Luckin is looking into allegations that chief operating officer Jian Liu and other employees reporting faked sales transactions amounting to $310 million.
The company’s long-term business model appears intact, and while the allegations are serious, the huge drop may more reflect today’s extremely volatile markets rather than the impact of the potential misconduct....
Adobe has dropped 24.3% from the all-time peak of $389 it reached in February 2020. Even so, it’s still up 16% over the last year, and up a spectacular 5,900.2% since we first recommended it in July 1998.


In 2011, the software provider was one of the first to end sales of boxed software and move its products to a software-as-a-service model....
In March 2019, activist investment firm Sachem Head Capital Management announced that it had acquired 8.9% of Eagle Materials. It now owns around 7% of the company.


Sachem originally pushed the company to sell its fracking sands business, which has struggled in recent years as oil producers opt instead to use brown sand from suppliers close to their wells....
New spinoff stocks often drift sideways for a few years until building a history of earnings and attracting analysts.


As a new spinoff from Danaher, Envista is still an attractive choice for aggressive investors. However, we’re less confident about Match Group’s short-term prospects even as parent company IAC hands out the rest of its holding in the new company to its investors.


ENVISTA HOLDINGS CORP....
ED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC. $5.18 is a sell. The company (Nasdaq symbol RRGB; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 12.9 million; Market cap: $66.8 million; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; www.redrobin.com) is a casual dining chain with 556 Red Robin restaurant locations in the U.S....
It’s a good idea for you to keep an eye on activist investors, as they often look for the same hidden assets we do. When they find those assets, activists tend to zero in on the undervalued company and pressure it to spin off or sell parts of its operations to add value for all investors.


For example, an activist has helped spur AT&T to cut its debt and buy back shares....

We normally advise investors to avoid new stock issues as they typically come to market when it’s a good time for the company or its insiders to sell. That may not be a good time for you to buy. However, we’re making an exception for Reynolds Consumer Products....
In a sudden and deep stock-market drop like the one of the past few weeks, it’s all too easy to respond impulsively or go to extremes. You may feel a temptation to sell all your stocks and “wait for things to settle down” before going back in the market. Or you may feel an urge to “average down”: buy more of your biggest losers....