Just one of these is a spinoff buy

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ARCOSA INC. $30 (New York symbol ACA; Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 48.8 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.arcosa.com) makes construction materials (such as highway guardrails and gravel), inland barges, and energy equipment (such as electrical transmission towers and fuel storage tanks). On November 1, 2018, railcar-products-and-services company Trinity Industries Inc. (New York symbol TRN) spun off Arcosa as a separate firm. Investors received one Arcosa share for every three Trinity shares they held. In the three months ended September 30, 2018, Arcosa’s revenue rose 3.5%, to $378.6 million from $365.9 million a year earlier. Higher demand for barges and construction projects offset weaker sales at the energy equipment business. The company now plans to sell some of its energy-related operation and has now written down the value of those assets by $23.3 million. As a result of that charge, Arcosa’s earnings in the quarter fell 84.5%, to $3.1 million from $20.6 million. The company did not report per-share…