Here is some more info on the Cummins (CMI)/Atmus Filtration (ATMU) exchange offer deal…
You start out by buying 99 or fewer shares of CMI stock per tax ID (not per account).
You reach out to your brokerage firm and ask them about how you can submit your Cummins shares to receive Atmus shares in exchange. Don’t worry- CMI is a much more expensive stock than ATMU, so that means you will get a lot more ATMU shares. You will likely get something like 1,200-1,300 shares of ATMU in exchange for 99 CMI.
Once you get the ATMU shares, just sell them in the open market. Just don’t use a market order, which is like writing a blank check. That could cost you. If I have a decent profit, I’ll typically put in an order to sell the new stock (ATMU) at a price perhaps 1/2- 1% lower than the most recent close.
WHY DO THIS DEAL? A very good chance to make good money is the reason. CMI is providing a roughly 7% incentive to those who have shares accepted for this deal. NO, THAT IS NOT A GUARANTEED 7%. It could end up becoming, say, 5-9% or even more. Lockheed Martin’s deal in 2016 with Leidos ended up paying out OVER 20% to those who bought 99 or fewer shares! I had an Excel spreadsheet where I tracked results for my friends who did this and 101 people combined made well over $500,000 profit on the Lockheed deal alone. Eight years later I still have people occasionally bringing up that winner.
Of course, there is absolutely no guarantee of any profit whatsoever. You must be willing to take some risk! That said, of the 16 previous deals I’ve done similar to this type of corporate action since 2013, ALL OF THEM have been profitable. There were some where I was expecting to make $2,000-3,000 profit and the profit ended up being perhaps $500-700 or so and where it might have taken 3-4 months or so to get that money. But there were at least 4-5 that I’d say were absolute home runs.
When is the deadline? The official deadline is 3/13/24 (Wed.), but the deadline at your broker will almost certainly be a few days earlier. At Schwab the deadline to submit to exchange shares is 3/11/24 (Mon.) at 7pm EST. If you need to tender only settled shares, that would mean buying no later than 3/7/24 (Thurs.). BOTTOM LINE: Check with your broker to see what the rules are. They will likely have a department called Corporate Actions or Reorg that knows about this.
Oh yeah, there is a website set up to track this deal on a daily basis. It is…
http://www.okapivote.com/CumminsAtmusExchangeWhat questions do you have?