Multiple Break-Up Values From This Week

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

Stock Tickers: CL, NWS, TYC, C, MET, GLW, WM

This week 24/7 Wall St. featured many names that fall within the realmof larger private equity screens as far as potential break-up stocks.That does not mean that they WILL be broken apart or that the companiesare certain candidates, but this is one of many screens that firmsrun.  As with ANY 'value' or 'screen' there is a matter of opinion andnot everyone will share the same opinion.  We also have the methodology posted at the end.  Here is the first half of the list:

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for Colgate (CL): $70.00; stock price was $67.00 at the time.

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for News Corp (NWS): $25.00; stock price was $25.00 at the time.

We also ran a piece about how much of the perceived extra value in Tyco(TYC) was already starting to look like it was priced in ahead of thecompany earnings.

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for Citigroup (C): $65.00; stock price was $54.75 at the time.

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for Met Life (MET): $79.00; stock price was $63.00 at the time.

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for Corning (GLW): $35.00; stock price was $21.00 at the time.

24/7 Wall St. break-up value for Washington Mutual (WM): $59.00; stock price was $45.50 at the time

METHODOLOGY

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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