Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI)

[richrichrich]

I have to agree with Trinityz on that one. If what you're saying is/was possible, then I would think that anybody could just duck out and back in, after the record date, but before the spinoff/split date, on a number of such "combo" type deals that have transpired, with other companies. This would allow one to possibly profit greatly from the rise/fall, before/after the record date, yet still be in the "picture", for the follow up action. I don't believe it is true, or at least I've never heard of it being done. Of course, that is one of my thoughts I had, about "What if I sold after the record date?"......I do see that the new tickers are viewable/tradeable. I was trying to find them days ago, using a dot before the suffix digits. Now when I tried using a hyphen, all is understood.......I'm still kind of wondering though, if these stocks are already trading, what happens on the morning of Jan 4, when MOT does the spinoff/1 for 7 split(MMI/MSI), when many billions of shares are added to the new "tickers"? Granted that the MSI stock will only receive one seventh of the "blow", but what occurs to each of them? Severe instantaneous dillution?