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J&J’s Kenvue Exchange Offer Is Substantially Oversubscribed. What Happens Now.

Last updated: 2023/08/21 at 10:02 PM
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Johnson & Johnson traders who elected to take part within the swap will see simply 23.8% of their shares transformed into Kenvue inventoryPublication Signal-up The Barron’s Every day

Johnson & Johnson traders who elected to take part within the swap will see simply 23.8% of their shares transformed into Kenvue inventory


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Johnson & Johnson
’s
$35 billion trade supply for

Kenvue

that expired final Friday was considerably oversubscribed. The result’s that collaborating J&J holders will be capable to convert solely a fraction of their shares for Kenvue inventory.

J&J (ticker: JNJ) stated Monday that the preliminary proration estimate is 23.8%, which means that J&J holders who participated within the trade will see simply 23.8% of their shares swapped for Kenvue (KVUE) inventory. The remainder of J&J shares submitted by J&J traders within the trade supply shall be returned to them.

The trade supply announced in late July was standard with J&J holders with about 803 million J&J shares tendered, or about 30% of the healthcare large’s excellent inventory.

The exception to the proration is J&J holders who held lower than 100 shares and submitted all of them within the trade supply. They won’t be topic to proration. The “odd-lot” exception to the proration attracted appreciable curiosity from retail traders since J&J was providing roughly $107.50 in Kenvue inventory for $100 in J&J shares as an inducement for its holders to make the swap.

Kenvue, a client well being enterprise that holds such manufacturers as Tylenol, Listerine, and Band-Help, was taken public by J&J in May.

The proration was barely decrease than some on Wall Road anticipated, with Barron’s reporting Friday that estimates had been within the 25% to 30% vary. J&J holders might have elected to submit all, some or none of their holdings within the trade supply. The ultimate proration determine is because of be introduced on Wednesday.

A J&J holder who submitted 1,000 shares within the trade supply probably will get about 1,911 shares of Kenvue and retain 762 shares of J&J, Barron’s estimates. J&J holders who participated within the trade supply will latest roughly 8.03 shares of Kenvue for every J&J share accepted for trade.

Kenvue inventory is larger in early buying and selling Monday, rising 1.7% to $23.25, whereas J&J inventory is off 2.1% to $168.82. 

That is what many on Wall Road anticipated as a result of arbitragers had been shopping for J&J inventory, and promoting brief Kenvue inventory to make the most of the roughly 7% low cost on Kenvue inventory that J&J supplied within the trade. Now that the arbitrage exercise is over, Kenvue is rallying and J&J is underneath stress. Kenvue inventory had traded at round $25 earlier than J&J introduced plans for the trade supply. With the proration barely decrease than anticipated, there might be further upward stress on Kenvue inventory.


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The bull case on Kenvue is that it’ll quickly commerce to round $25, helped by its inclusion within the


S&P 500 index

which is able to occurred at an undetermined date after the trade supply. Some suppose an announcement by S&P Dow Jones Indices on the inclusion might occur as early as this week.

Citi analyst Filippo Falorni wrote in a be aware final week, “KVUE shares have been underneath stress from event-driven funds throughout the trade tender interval and we count on further volatility throughout the averaging interval (8/14-16), and on 8/21-22 as event-driven funds readjust their positions post-close. We anticipate KVUE will outperform within the following weeks, as shares return to buying and selling based mostly on fundamentals.” Falorni has a $26 worth goal on Kenvue inventory. He additionally cited the approaching S&P 500 inclusion as a bullish issue.

J&J stated it might trade practically 191 million shares of its inventory for 1.53 billion Kenvue shares that it retained after taking Kenvue public in Might. After the trade, J&J will nonetheless maintain a 9.5% stake in Kenvue, roughly 180 million shares. 

Some Wall Road analysts anticipated J&J to trade its total Kenvue stake, some 1.7 billion shares, within the supply, nevertheless it determined to retain an curiosity within the consumer-health firm.

The trade supply or split-off quantities to an enormous inventory buyback funded by Kenvue inventory, with J&J retiring about 7% of its shares.

Corrections & Amplifications:

J&J hasn’t stated what it plans to do with its remaining 9.5% stake in Kenvue. An earlier model of this text incorrectly stated J&J plans to distribute it to shareholders.

Write to Andrew Bary at andrew.bary@barrons.com

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