There is talk that Lufthansa, which Citigroup reckons would in pieces be worth twice the parent company's market value, may spin off its in-flight catering business.
From 20 days before the announcement of a spin-off to 60 days after, the combined value of the parent and spun-off children has on average outperformed the market by eight percentage points, says Mr Stendevad.
There are numerous studies which show the value of a stay at home parent in dollars and cents but as far as banks are concerned this type of employment really has no tangible value.
Sprint PCS is a separately traded security that parent Sprint used to "unlock value" in its sexy subsidiary while retaining 100% ownership of the sub.
When Lexis Nexis revealed the massive loss of personal data shares in its parent company, Reed Elsevier, dropped in value by only one per cent.
With the parent company increasingly betting its future on the value of its content, rather than the way it's delivered, a digital strategist would seem logical anywhere but in Hollywood, where relationships with directors and actors are given primacy.
Spending years feeling you have to apologize for being a responsible parent can cause women to lose all sense of the value of their own contributions.
We applied the average price-to-earnings multiple of the parent company to the net brand earnings number to arrive at a brand value.
The stockmarket thinks as much: it has lowered spectacularly the value it places on the subsidiaries in question relative to the parent company (see chart).
However, running that board is Chairman Jerome Feldman, 79, who resigned from former parent GP Strategies in 2005 after shareholders complained about his long record of destroying value.
Ematic, a leader in value tablets, took these concerns into great consideration, and designed a new, parent-approved tablet tailored to children.
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Bondholders of BCE, the parent of Bell Canada, argued that the deal would load the company up with debt, curbing the value of their holdings.
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