Dow Chemical to Sell Newly Acquired Morton Salt
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 4/2/2009

Less than twenty four hours after Dow Chemical (DOW: Charts, News, Offers) announced its successful $15 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas. The chemical firm has already divested one of its newly acquired subsidiaries, Morton Salt. Dow sold Morton Salt today to the German based K+S Aktiengesellschaft for $1.675 billion. Although many market analysts believe that the deal was fair for both parties involved. Why would Dow Chemical sell a business that earns a yearly revenue of $1.2 billion so quickly? More >

Agrium: A Tale of Two Fertilizing Mergers
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 2/25/2009

In an unsolicited proposal, Calgary-based Agrium offered to buy CF Industries (CF: Charts, News, Offers) today. This comes amid news that CF Industries launched a hostile bid for Terra Industries (TRA: Charts, News, Offers) just last month. Agrium's move hardly comes off as a surprise to arbitragers; in a publicly disclosed letter, President and CEO Michael Wilson stated that they have been trying to take over CF since before the company went public in 2005. The current deal would give the target company $3.6 billion in cash and stock. It is also contingent on CF retracting its hostile bid for Terra. Considering that they have tried to take the company over before, why would they want try to again? More >

DOW Chemical: Slapped with a "No."
Excerpt from the InvestorGuide.com Stock of the Day on 12/29/2008

In pre-market trading, Dow Chemical & Rohm & Haas (ROH: Charts, News, Offers) were hit hard when news came in that the proposed joint venture between DOW and Kuwait's state-owned Petrochemical Industries failed. Even though the price for this joint venture was renegotiated about a week and a half ago, Kuwait still declined. While both parties would have benefited from this deal, Kuwait did state that this was an overpriced arrangement. Is "overpriced" the whole picture? Does this mean Kuwaiti funds are completely out of the picture? And what are the options available to Dow to acquire Rohm & Haas if they do not have Kuwaiti funds to apply to an acquisition? More >