61. Not all tracking stocks go down, of course. 62. On Tuesday, DuPont announced that it would establish a tracking stock to allow investors to bet on the performance of one part of the company. 63. One advantage of a tracking stock is that its underlying assets can be swapped with assets in the parent company without incurring taxes. 64. One advantage of investing in a tracking stock is that you often get a growth company that comes with a big name behind it. 65. Priceline, even more than Amazon.com, has served as a sort of tracking stock for the whole dot-com sector. 66. Privately, executives close to the negotiations say Bell Atlantic does not plan to offer a tracking stock after a deal. 67. Quantum last year replaced its traditional shares with separate tracking stocks for the hard-disk group and for its tape-drive business. 68. Shares of the consumer business will trade as a tracking stock of the business operation. 69. So we came up with the tracking stock. 70. Some companies try to avoid this danger by employing a halfway step known as a tracking stock. |