spinoffs

We have singled out three growth buys for 2025—ones we believe have exceptional prospects for the year ahead. What’s more, each is a market leader, which cuts your risk.


EXPEDIA GROUP INC., $173.65, is a #1 Power Buy for 2025. The company (Nasdaq symbol EXPE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.expediagroup.com; Shares outstanding: 142.6 million; Market cap: $23.3 billion; No dividends paid) operates the world’s largest travel booking platform....

Corteva shares offer investors a number of pluses: Not only is the company at the forefront of key agricultural trends, the stock is a spinoff. Over the years, we’ve found that spinoffs are about as close as you can get to a sure thing in investing. It’s one key reason why we think there are significant gains ahead for existing Corteva investors and for new ones....

You Can See Our Spinoff Stock Portfolio For January 2025 Here.

Why we like spinoffs so much
We think that spinoffs are the closest thing you can find to a sure thing for two main reasons:


1) The management of a parent company will only hand out shares in a subsidiary to its own investors if it’s all but certain that business, and the parent, will be better off after the spinoff.


2) Spinoffs involve a lot of work and legal fees....

Corteva offers you exposure to key agricultural growth areas given its leadership in the corn and soybean markets and its strong position in crop protection products. While those markets can be volatile due to weather and economic conditions, the company’s size, geographic and product diversification, and solid balance sheet mitigate those risks.

Note that the stock, itself, is a spinoff....

EMBECTA CORP., $20.83, Nasdaq symbol EMBC, remains a buy.

On April 1, 2022, Becton Dickinson & Co. (New York symbol BDX) spun off its Diabetes Care business as a separate, publicly traded firm called embecta. Investors received one share of embecta for every five common shares of Becton they held.

The new company makes insulin syringes, insulin pens and related products....

Carrier is a great example of how spinoffs unlock value by providing investors with an easier-to-understand firm focused on one business. Since it became an independent firm in 2020, Carrier, with its core focus on heating and cooling systems has seen its stock soar over 500%....

TSI in the Globe & Mail: Here are 5 companies planning 2025 spinoffs and scoring high Dividend Sustainability marks.

You Can See Our Spinoff Stock Portfolio For December 2024 Here.

Why we like spinoffs so much
We think that spinoffs are the closest thing you can find to a sure thing for two main reasons:


1) The management of a parent company will only hand out shares in a subsidiary to its own investors if it’s all but certain that business, and the parent, will be better off after the spinoff.


2) Spinoffs involve a lot of work and legal fees....

These two medical-related spinoffs have struggled since they became separate companies. That has attracted the interest of activist investors. While that attention improves the prospects of both firms, we see better opportunities elsewhere.


KENVUE INC....

Diversified manufacturer Honeywell recently announced that it will spin off its Advanced Materials business as a separate firm. That unit make a variety of products, ranging from body armour and pharmaceutical packaging to air-conditioning refrigerants and packaging films.


Activist investor Elliott Investment Management, which owns $5 billion of Honeywell’s shares, instead wants the company to split another way, with one of the new businesses focused on automation, energy and sustainability solutions; the other would be focused on aerospace....