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15 Days of Value - Spin-Offs

Day 2 = spin-offs; what to look for, unique characteristics, and a bunch of active ideas

Dec 09, 2025
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As a quick reminder, we’re covering 15 value investing themes over 15 days… yesterday we looked at beaten down shares, and today we’re digging into spin-offs.

Another housekeeping item — I’ll share my notes on each of the 15 categories, how I evaluate them, look at some historic examples, and share a few actionable ideas. When we’re done, I’ll package it up into a nice pdf / e-book for the holidays.

Enjoy!

15 Investment Themes (in no particular order):

  1. Beaten down shares

  2. Spin-offs

  3. Post-reorg

  4. Management changes

  5. Insider buys

  6. Activism

  7. Inflections

  8. Jockeys & compounders

  9. GoodCo / BadCo

  10. Public LBO / deleveraging

  11. Share cannibals

  12. M&A

  13. Plain vanilla cheap

  14. Turnarounds

  15. Asset plays

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