These stock updates will help direct you: Rexnord Corp., Shaw Communications and MDA

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REXNORD CORP. $50 is a spinoff buy. The company (New York symbol RXN; Manufacturing Sector; Shares outstanding: 119.6 million; Market cap: $6.0 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.rexnordcorporation.com) is now spinning off its Process & Motion Control business in a tax-free spinoff to shareholders. It will then merge that segment with Regal Beloit Corp.(New York symbol RBC). It’s a Wisconsin-based maker of industrial gear, including electric motors, and power transmission and power generation components for the aerospace, food and building industries. Regal shareholders will own 61.4% of the merged entity, while Rexnord shareholders will own 38.6%. The combined firm will adopt the Rexnord name. Meanwhile, the remaining (yet-to-be-named) Rexnord operations will become a pure-play water management business offering smart water solutions for facility owners. It recently acquired Just Manufacturing, a provider of stainless steel and anti-microbial sinks. It also bought Hadrian, a maker of washroom partition systems. The two new firms should better focus on their core businesses and so reward Rexnord investors. They’ll…