Madison Square Garden split is still on

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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CO. $268 (New York symbol MSG; Shares outstanding: 23.8 million; Market cap: $6.4 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; www.msg.com) is a sports and entertainment company that owns the New York Rangers hockey team, the NBA’s New York Knicks and several other sports franchises. It also owns or operates several entertainment venues, including Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. In 2010, Cablevision Systems Corp. (New York symbol CVC) set up its sports teams and their related cable TV operations as a separate firm called The Madison Square Garden Company. Later, in 2015, the new firm spun off its media operations as MSG Networks Inc. (New York symbol MSGN). Madison Square Garden shareholders then received one MSGN share for every three MSG shares they held. Madison Square Garden’s revenue rose 52.2%, from $1.07 billion in 2015 to $1.63 billion in 2019 (fiscal years end June 30). Those gains are partly due to acquisitions, including the January 2017 purchase of 62.5%…