Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing, Stock Spin-Off Investing

Richard Howe

Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing

Stock Spin-Off Investing

Generate attractive returns by taking advantage of inefficiencies in the stock spin-off market.

Stock Spin-offs

Event-Driven

<ul><li>On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax-free transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2027</li><li>The spin-off is part of Eaton’s broader 2030 growth strategy to sharpen its focus on its higher-growth, higher-margin Electrical and Aerospace businesses, which are closely tied to secular megatrends such as electrification, digitalization, AI-driven data center buildouts, and infrastructure and defense spending.</li><li>In recent years, Eaton’s stock has been bid up as investors increasingly view ETN as a beneficiary of the booming AI and data-center buildout, not just a traditional industrial equipment maker.<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"></figure></li></ul>

On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax-free transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2027The spin-off is part of Eaton’s broader 2030 growth strategy to sharpen its focus on its higher-growth, higher-margin Electrical and Aerospace businesses, which are closely tied to secular megatrends such as electrification, digitalization, AI-driven data center buildouts, and infrastructure and defense spending.In recent years, Eaton’s stock has been bid up as investors increasingly view ETN as a beneficiary of the booming AI and data-center buildout, not just a traditional industrial equipment maker.

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Dimitris Ioannidis

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/verisure-holding-ab" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43889:1" rel="noopener">Verisure Holding (VSURE SS)</a> is forecasted to be added at a market cap of ~$19bn following its IPO on 8 October.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/metlen-energy-metals-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45704:1" rel="noopener">Metlen Energy &amp; Metals (MTLN LN)</a> is expected to be added at a market cap of ~$6bn due to a change of incorporation and primary listing from Greece to UK.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/schibsted-asa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22250:1" rel="noopener">Vend Marketplaces ASA (VEND NO)</a> is projected to be added at a market cap of ~$6bn because of the unification of its share class structure.</li>
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Verisure Holding (VSURE SS) is forecasted to be added at a market cap of ~$19bn following its IPO on 8 October.

Metlen Energy &amp; Metals (MTLN LN) is expected to be added at a market cap of ~$6bn due to a change of incorporation and primary listing from Greece to UK.

Vend Marketplaces ASA (VEND NO) is projected to be added at a market cap of ~$6bn because of the unification of its share class structure.


STOXX Europe600 Dec25 Forecast: VSURE, VEND & MTLN Leading Top Additions

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Pastel Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) is looking to raise up to US$1.2bn via selling a 0.8% stake in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharti-airtel-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:953:1" rel="noopener">Bharti Airtel (BHARTI IN)</a>.</li>
<li>There have been three US$1bn+ selldowns already in 2025, twice by Sunil Mittal-led promoter entity Indian Continental Investment (ICI) and once by Singtel, which last sold in May 2025.</li>
<li>In this note, we run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.</li>
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Pastel Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) is looking to raise up to US$1.2bn via selling a 0.8% stake in Bharti Airtel (BHARTI IN).
There have been three US$1bn+ selldowns already in 2025, twice by Sunil Mittal-led promoter entity Indian Continental Investment (ICI) and once by Singtel, which last sold in May 2025.
In this note, we run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.


Bharti Airtel Placement - Second Singtel Selldown in 2025; Fourth US$1bn+ Deal This Year

<ul><li>This week we had a busy week of earnings (WDC, AAF, LBTYA), and it will continue next week.</li><li>Honeywell (HON)  spun off 100% of its Advanced Materials business, Solstice (SOLS), on October 30, 2025.</li><li>Solstice was added to the S&amp;P 500 and performed well on its first day of trading before selling off on Friday.<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"></figure></li></ul>

This week we had a busy week of earnings (WDC, AAF, LBTYA), and it will continue next week.Honeywell (HON)  spun off 100% of its Advanced Materials business, Solstice (SOLS), on October 30, 2025.Solstice was added to the S&amp;P 500 and performed well on its first day of trading before selling off on Friday.

JSW Cement Limited / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jsw-cement-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43870:1" rel="noopener">JSW Cement Limited (9858514Z IN)</a> is looking to raise about US$410m in its India IPO. The IPO has been downsized from US$480m with primary component cut to US$160m from US$180m.</li>
<li>JSW Cement (JSWC) is a cement manufacturing company in India focused on manufacturing green cementitious products comprising blended cement, ordinary portland cement, ground granulated blast furnace slag, among other products.</li>
<li>In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about implied valuations in the IPO price range.</li>
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JSW Cement Limited (9858514Z IN) is looking to raise about US$410m in its India IPO. The IPO has been downsized from US$480m with primary component cut to US$160m from US$180m.
JSW Cement (JSWC) is a cement manufacturing company in India focused on manufacturing green cementitious products comprising blended cement, ordinary portland cement, ground granulated blast furnace slag, among other products.
In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about implied valuations in the IPO price range.


JSW Cement IPO - RHP Updates, Peer Comp and Thoughts on Valuations

United Kingdom

Airtel Africa Plc provides telecommunications and mobile money services across 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East, Central, and West Africa. The company offers a range of services including prepaid and postpaid wireless voice, 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G data services, mobile money, international roaming, and fixed-line telephony. It is headquartered in London, England, and was founded on June 8, 2010.

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Airtel Africa (AAF LN)

Weekly Update (WDC, AAF, WAT)

On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax...

Richard Howe

STOXX Europe600 Dec25 Forecast: VSURE, VEND & MTLN Leading Top Additions

VSURE or MTLN may be added ahead of the review as a replacement following KKR’s cash acquisition of Spectris (SXS), which is expected to close on 3...

Dimitris Ioannidis

Bharti Airtel Placement - Second Singtel Selldown in 2025; Fourth US$1bn+ Deal This Year

Pastel Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) is looking to raise up to US$1.2bn via selling a 0.8% stake in Airtel.

Akshat Shah

Weekly Update (WDC, AAF, LBTYA, LEN)

This week we had a busy week of earnings (WDC, AAF, LBTYA), and it will continue next week. Honeywell (HON) spun off 100% of its Advanced Materials...

Richard Howe

JSW Cement IPO - RHP Updates, Peer Comp and Thoughts on Valuations

JSW Cement is looking to raise about US$410m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the RHP updates, peer comp and implied valuations in the...

Akshat Shah

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