We don’t see all spinoffs as winners

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While most spinoffs pay off for investors over time, some deliver big gains right away while others can go into a deep slump. Here are two recent spinoffs moving in opposite directions. GXO LOGISTICS INC. $88 is a spinoff buy. The company (New York symbol GXO; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 114.6 million; Market cap: $10.1 billion; No dividends paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.gxo.com) is the world’s largest contract logistics services provider. It has 869 warehouses, totalling 208 million square feet and mostly in North America and Europe. On August 2, 2021, former parent company XPO Logistics Inc. (New York symbol XPO) spun off GXO as an independent publicly traded company. Investors received one new share of GXO for every share held in XPO. As a separate firm, the stock has already jumped 33%. In the three months ended September 30, 2021, GXO’s revenue rose 24.6%, to $1.97 billion from $1.58 billion a year earlier. That’s mainly because it continues to win new contracts: in the quarter,…