Six corporate “spinoff” opportunities to consider now (from Barron’s on April 12)…
Barron’s reached out to Jim Osman, founder of research firm the Edge, which identifies opportunities in special situations, including spinoffs, mergers, management changes, and shareholder activism. Spinoffs, in particular, have been fertile ground in the past. Osman has been tracking them for 20-plus years and found that companies involved in spinoffs beat the market in