XPO Logistics Completed the GXO Spin. Here’s What Happens Now.

The combined $140 terms connected Monday, adding up GXO and XPO stock, remains adjacent to the Friday trading of pre-split XPO. That makes consciousness due to the fact that investors received 1 stock of GXO for each XPO stock they owned. GXO volition person astir 115 cardinal shares outstanding, conscionable similar XPO, giving GXO a marketplace capitalization of astir $6.7 billion. The lighter XPO present has a marketplace headdress of astir $9.4 billion.

XPO present has businesses successful less-than-truckload shipping and motortruck brokerage. Such shipping is mostly serves concern customers and covers shorter distances than trucks traveling down interstate highways. The different company, GXO, volition negociate warehouses and logistics operations for its customers.

And portion determination are present 2 stocks, the full worth of investors’ investments won’t alteration connected Monday beyond what the marketplace does. S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are up astir 0.5% and 0.6%, respectively.

Barron’s precocious wrote positively astir XPO, believing the rotation was a affirmative catalyst for the banal and some stand-alone companies could commercialized astatine higher valuation multiples. Since the nonfiction appeared successful precocious April, the worth of investors’ stakes has gone from astir $137 per pre-split stock to a combined $138.55 for the 2 shares—a tiny move, but contiguous is lone the archetypal time of some company’s abstracted existences.

Write to Al Root astatine allen.root@dowjones.com