
Shares in Georg Fischer GF.S are up around 3% after the Swiss industrial liquids company announced it was selling its casting solutions division to Mexican automotive supplier Nemak NEMAKA.MX
Jefferies points to GF making a transition to a pure-play flow based solutions business with higher earnings resilience and profitability in the future
It adds that GF will incur a sizeable one-off, non-cash book loss, including various adjustments, recycling of goodwill and currency translation differences
GF said on Wednesday that its iron foundry in Leipzig, along with aerospace and industrial gas turbine operations in Novazzano and Arad are not part of the transaction
($1 = 0.8048 Swiss francs)