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Investing.com-- Toyota Industries Corp (OTC:TYIDF) shares tumbled on Wednesday after Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) (TYO:7203) offered about $33 billion to take the company private, albeit at a discounted per-share valuation.
Toyota Industries shares slumped more than 12% to an intraday low of 15,975.0 yen, lagging a 0.8% rise in the Nikkei 225.
The share rout came after Toyota Motor announced a $26 billion tender offer for shares of Toyota Industries at 16,300 yen each, which was substantially lower than the stock’s close of 18,400.0 yen on Tuesday. The total buyout value of the deal is about 4.7 trillion yen ($33 billion).
Bloomberg reported that Toyota Industries shareholders and analysts said the proposal significantly undervalued the company. Earlier reports had also shown that the tender offer would be around $42 billion.
The deal comes as Japan’s major conglomerates face increasing government pressure to unwind shareholdings in each other, which is expected to improve corporate governance.
Toyota Motor, along with Aisin, Denso, and Toyota Tsusho, will sell all their shares in Toyota Industries and buy their shares held by the company.
Toyota Industries is the company from which Toyota Motors, the world’s largest automaker, was spun off from.