(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) said on Friday it was splitting its consumer health segment from its larger pharma unit, becoming the third company this week after General Electric Co and Toshiba Corp (OTC) to adopt a more flexible approach to their business.

Below is a listing of notable U.S. corporate mergers that occurred in the past.

YEAR COMPANY The stock market performance of Year Company since

Splits effective Nov. 9, 2009

Near

1984 AT&T Inc (NYSE:) In 1974, the U.S. government

An antitrust suit was filed

against AT&T Corp because it had

A monopoly in telephone lines

After eight years’ worth of litigation,

The two sides came to an agreement.

settlement that led to AT&T

giving up control https://reut.rs/3mWDI3Q

Its regional operations

Companies, or Baby Bells.

2015. Ebay Inc In June 2015, e-commerce firm

eBay Inc (NASDAQ:) approved the spinoff https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-board-approves-completion-of-ebay-and-paypal-separation

PayPal (NASDAQ:), up 431%

It has been trading since its beginning. EBay

The number rose 168% in that time

frame

2015 Hewlett Packard Co In November 2015,

Hewlett-Packard is split in two

listed companies https://reut.rs/3og9c4i.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:),

This includes the corporate

Hardware and Service business

Hewlett-Packard (which was

The renamed HP Inc. (NYSE:) now includes the

Computers and printers are a business.

Since then, both stocks have increased.

That time was marked by an increase in HPE to 81.5%

HPQ at 159.6%

2016 Honeywell

International International Inc., U.S.

Manufacturer of parts for aerospace.

Climate control and other systems

approved the spinoff https://reut.rs/3F36dTY

The resins cost $1.3 Billion

The chemical operations of chemicals into a

AdvanSix, a standalone company (NYSE:)

Inc. The stock has risen 200.4%

It has been trading since its inception.

Honeywell’s stock rose by 105% in that period

time period.

2019 DuPont

Its material science was spun off

Division Dow, Inc. followed in

April 2019 in agriscience

Company Corteva (NYSE:) as part of its

breakup into three companies https://reut.rs/31McHYU.

They have been together since the very beginning.

Trading, Dow up 13.9%

Corteva has risen 77.4% while DuPont is at 77.4%

Only 4.6% was higher

2020 United Technologies (NYSE 🙂 March 2020

Technologies Corp has approved

spinoffs https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-technologies-board-of-directors-approves-separation-of-carrier-and-otis-and-declares-spin-off-distribution-of-carrier-and-otis-shares-301021893.html

Corporation of Carrier Global (NYSE 🙂

Corporation and Otis Worldwide

Carrier’s shares have risen 312%

Otis rose by 89.9% in the past

Trades began.

2021 IBM (NYSE: IBM spun off large amounts of

The company is managed and

Infrastructure business

Kyndryl as November 2021

Century-old technology company is sold

His slow-growing company to

Concentrate on the high-margin cloud

artificial intelligence

Businesses Kyndryl dropped 27%

It began trading in earlier

This month, IBM dropped 0.47%

Since then.

General General Electric

Electric Co. announced it would be severing into three

2021 companies that are public and primarily focus on

Energy, aviation and healthcare

The industrial conglomerate

The company aims to reduce complexity in its operations.

Reducing debt to increase it

The battered share market price

Johnson & Johnson

It stated that it planned to dissolve the union

Splitting 2021 into 2 companies

Its consumer health division

This company sells Baby-Aids, Band-Aids, and other baby products

Powder in its large

pharmaceuticals unit.