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Corporate spinoffs isolate the worst performing assets

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When a massive conglomerate has a specific division that is ruthlessly dragging down its stock price, it just amputates the dead weight. A corporate spinoff takes a subsidiary and turns it into its own independent publicly traded company, allowing the parent corporation to instantly look much more profitable by dumping the ugly duckling directly onto the open market.

Corporate spinoffs isolate the worst performing assets
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