RE:RE:Split upYou might be right, I just hope it works out that it doesnt affect margin.. If you have people needing to dump shares because one division is marginable and others are not - - or for example you end up with a $2 stock in industrial (probably not marginable as its a $2 stock) then it will cause some chaos.. So hopefully we end up with all divisions over $10/share and how it all shakes out I am not sure about but I am sure HR has a plan on all that.
I do expect the dividend eventually (2 years Im guessing) back up to around $1.30 a share divided by the sectors it splits into.
Waiting patiently for news and updates on all this.
materialsgirl wrote: gashole
The basic theme of what you think is similar to what I expect.
The number of shares for each division will be different for the reason you
pointed out.
Conceptually you might get
0.5 shares for Division A
0.4 shares for Division B
0.3 shares for Division C
0.25 shares for Division D (Industrial for example)
The specifics would be based on the expected market cap of
each division and then to target a sahre price for each in
the $12 to $20 range.
The new values in total might be equivalent to $22 to $24
for the current shares.
A split-up might be done in conjunction with a merger plan idea
with another similar outfit in order to get better economies of scale.
This approach would avoid the pitfall of having $2 or $3 share prices
I did not do a detailed evaluation; just an illustration.
mat