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Stock Spin-off Exchange Traded Fund Has A Lot Going For It

March 24th, 2010 by john | 636 Comments | Filed in Spin-off Investing, Value Investing

In a recent article on CSD, the stock spin-off exchange traded fund, Claymore/Clear Spin-Off, Michael Johnston has given a very concise and complete look at the ETF.

CSD,  can serve the value investor seeking better than average returns in serveral ways.

  • Of course, you can simply buy the fund.
  • You can also use its portfolio as one source for building your watch list.
  • And, the content of its quarterly and annual reports is a good source of educational information on spin-off stocks.

Depending on when you got into CSD it has been a very rough or a very rewarding ride for investors so far as shown by the chart below.

Chart for Claymore/Beacon Spin-Off (CSD)

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Finding Spin-off Stocks To Research

July 27th, 2009 by john | 1,480 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Finding spin-off stocks to consider investing in can be accomplished by using keywords in a

Once you have the best list of stock spin-off situations you can find, you will want to go through the same steps listed above with each company and the parent that you found so that you can keep track of how the spin-off is progressing. 

Also, with the stock symbols in hand it is much easier to find the appropriate SEC filings.  You can do that on the SEC website,  but I find that it is usually easier through the parent company’s website.   (You end up in the same place, but it’s usually easier getting there.)

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