Xerox's equipment-financing business is headed out the door, too, although it will probably not be divested in one deal.
But analysts say any deal for the company could be complex because of its significant stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, which may be divested in the event of a sale of Yahoo.
Semiconductors were divested in the Freescale Semiconductor spin-off, which doubled in value before being taken private recently.
And the Swiss company said its flu business, which is not part of the sale to U.K.-based GSK, would be divested in another pending deal, but it did not provide more specifics. .
In fact, it was the biggest increase amongst large stocks on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange over the last ten years, even though over 50percentt of DSM's portfolio has been divested in this process of transformation.
Do they feel like my pals at our former cable division, which was divested, in an act of completely moronic short-sightedness, when people like them decided that businesses who throw off cash flow but lower earnings per share were not worth keeping?
As a result of this analysis, ANU declared that it was divesting in a few carbon exposed companies.
Meanwhile, Dow is divesting $4 billion in assets and announced in December it would cut 11% of its workforce, about 5,000 jobs, and close 20 plants in high-cost locations.
At this point then, Lancz is divesting those holdings in favor of better opportunities with lesser risk, but still at the low end of valuation, such as People's United Financial, Hudson City Bancorp and non-bank financials like Western Union.
The environmental organization also estimates that as many as 122 companies could be divested from in total.
