Replies to post #128 on Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI)

[Trinityz1]

well first of all
have a very very very long relationship with people in the company
from before they built the place in Schaumberg
and they're not in the habit of having a conversation as just described
right now, even employees that hold shares and talk to people in the company are kinda on pins and needles...
one of my close relatives held 140,000 shares at one time and her co-workers also held a lot

and 2nd of all
I have learned NEVER to listen to what a rep from the company says
as so many times it turns out to be WRONG
and what you just described....sounds very very wrong

I just can't see anyone getting a distribution of shares for shares bought AFTER the record date

and if you sold the other shares and took a profit....
well then since you didn't hold them....divvy shares are gone there as well according to the PR because the conditions were IF AND

but what the heck....it's all up to what the SEC accepts and allows to happen
and that's what counts

so Good Luck with that

[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?