NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With powerhouse consumer companies like European based Unilever recently announcing the spinoff its spreads business and even the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos being called on to release value to shareholders via options like demerging AWS, The Edge Consulting Group believes in the next two years we will witness a significant rise in the quantity of companies announcing Spinoffs, if not convinced to.
"People need ideas they can trust. We have uncovered 100 stocks from over 1200 market leading global companies that will do either; 1. Announce a spinoff, and / or, 2. Receive pressure to restructure from one of the activist investors we know and advise," stated Ryan Mendy, COO of The Edge Consulting Group.
Outperforming activist-value investors like European based founders Christer Gardell and Lars Förberg of Cevian Capital, founder Dan Loeb of Third Point, the renowned Carl Icahn of Icahn Associates, Bill Ackman of Pershing Capital, Barry Rosenstein of JANA Partners and Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund and have for many years proven that the management of multi-billion dollar, global brand, industry companies will take stock of their strategic proposals and well researched convictions for alternative future growth. Yet despite the 'initial' and sometimes well-publicised push-back by some corporate management, most value investors and analysts are in awe of their investment peers and want to tap the same idea generation.
For investors tired of having to react to SEC filings by activists and wanting to benefit from knowing about potential corporate events, one firm renowned for their research exists with both a portfolio and a long track record of correctly recommending and predicted spinoffs is, The Edge Consulting Group. Their past list gives motivation, they accurately predicted: Autogrill and World Duty Free in Europe; Baxter; eBay; Hewlett Packard; Johnson Controls in the US; also Pfizer and Zoetis; FTSE listed consumer healthcare producer that owns Dettol and Nurofen; Reckitt Benckiser that just spun-off Indivior; Siemens and Osram; technology player Symantec; Time Warner's multiple spinoffs of their giant Cable business, internet segment AOL, followed-up by TIME publishing; and even Rupert Murdoch's News Corp from Twenty-First Century Fox, to name a few.
The real danger for investors is having the resources to best fundamentally understand these events before they happen, factoring the opportunity risk.
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SOURCE The Edge Consulting Group
