You’ll still see a Match spinoff

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IAC/INTERACTIVE CORP. $231 remains a buy. The Internet and media company (Nasdaq symbol IAC; Manufacturing & Industry Sector; Shares o/s: 84.8 million; Market cap: $19.6 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; www.iac.com) still plans to hand out its remaining 80.4% stake in MATCH GROUP INC. $75 (Nasdaq symbol MTCH; Consumer Sector; Shares o/s: 282.75 million; Market cap: $21.2 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.mtch.com) to its own investors. Match Group owns dating websites Tinder, Match, Hinge and OKCupid. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IAC wrote down $212.0 million of its intangible assets, including $4.6 million related to Match Group. The writedown should have no impact on the spinoff. IAC shareholders will still receive roughly 2.35 Match Group shares for each share they now hold; the company will set the final ratio before it completes the transaction in the second quarter of 2020. Investors are only liable for capital gains when they sell their new shares. We still see Match Group as a hold for investors. Despite…