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GMAC: Is Half A Loaf Better Than The Whole?

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title GMAC: Is Half A Loaf Better Than The Whole?
 
Creator Anderson, J. Richard
Muise, Cristina
Gancarz, David
 
Subject Cost of capital
partial divestitures
credit ratings
parent-subsidiary relationships
 
Description In November 2006 General Motors sold 51% ownership of its subsidiary, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation to Cerebus Capital Management in a complicated transaction. This paper demonstrates that GMAC produced over 90% of consolidated General Motors profit over the past two decades and tries to determine why the GM team sought to sell its best player and answer the natural follow-up question: why sell 51% of GMAC, instead of all of it? A number of possible explanations are considered, including cleaning up GM’s balance sheet, unlocking the submerged market value of GMAC, and improving GMAC’s credit rating/ access to capital. The paper concludes that the partial divestiture was a sound move that could easily have resulted in better financial performance for GM than the status quo, but that the entire strategy was upset by the subprime loan crisis of 2007-08.
 
Publisher Clute Institute
 
Date 2010-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://clutejournals.com/index.php/JBER/article/view/660
10.19030/jber.v8i1.660
 
Source Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER); Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010)
2157-8893
1542-4448
10.19030/jber.v8i1
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://clutejournals.com/index.php/JBER/article/view/660/646