CNHI Teams with Nikola - 25 Million Share Stake, NEWS There seems to be a disconnect between Nikola, Its Strategic Partners & It's Investors
CNHI owns over 25 million shares of Nikola, more than Worthington Industries. (WOR)
CNHI has over $4 Billion in cash on hand, more than Worthington Industries. (WOR)
CNHI's stake in Nikola is worth over $1.5 Billion dollars or 7.11%, more than Worthington Industries has.
CNHI has a market cap of around 10 Billion while Worthington only has a market cap of around 2 Billion.
CNHI stock price: $7.08, Worthington Ind. stock price: $35.65 - There's a huge disconnect here.
CNHI owns IVECO, one of its subsidiaries working with Nikola on its electric trucks and charging stations.
CNHI was part of the spinoff / merger with Nikola, this is how Nikola was started.
When you search the news on CNH, IVECO & Nikola, you will see more recent releases including the build-out of a charging network for Nikola vehicles. IVECO is building this for Nikola.
Not only are investors buying the wrong stock, as in Worthington Ind.(WOR), in my opinion, the price of CNHI at current levels is an early Christmas Gift.
I feel at minimum, CNHI should be trading upwards of $20.00 a share just because of the 25+ million share stake in Nikola, and this is aside from the partnership they have with Nikola through IVECO.
2 News Release Listed Below - (There are more recent news releases)
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RELEASE 1
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A promising cooperation from the Capital Markets Day
CNH Industrial’s Capital Markets Day brought Nikola’s technological innovation to the new Iveco and Fpt Industrial spin-off. CNH Industrial, in fact, announced its intention to enter into a strategic partnership with the company based in Phoenix to accelerate industry transformation towards emission neutrality of Class 8/Heavy-Duty Trucks in North America and Europe through the adoption of fuel-cell technology.
The words of Nikola and CNH
Trevor Milton, Chief Executive Officer, Nikola Corporation, said: «Nikola has the technology but needs a partner with a European network to achieve it in a timely manner. By bringing CNH Industrial on board, we now have access to manufacturing know-how, purchasing power, validated truck parts, plant engineering and much more».
Gerrit Marx, President Commercial and Specialty Vehicles, CNH Industrial, added: «While today LNG delivers significantly lower well-to-wheel emissions, in the medium to long-term, fuel-cell and BEV technologies will deliver the ultimate goal of zero-emission trucking. With our LNG technology we have proven to be European disruptors, taking the lead in industry transformations including fuel supply and lifecycle ownership».
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RELEASE 2
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Today’s announcement of Nikola Corporation’s intended listing on the NASDAQ Exchange, New York, U.S.A. later this year, through its merger with VectoIQ, is fully supported by CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE:CNHI / MI:CNHI).
“This is exciting news and another key milestone for our joint project to deliver zero emission Heavy-Duty Trucks and hydrogen infrastructure through a unique business model. Nikola’s NASDAQ listing gives further impetus to the ambitious targets we have set ourselves, to be at the forefront of scalable clean technology investments transforming our businesses and environment alike,” said Hubertus Mühlhäuser, Chief Executive Officer, CNH Industrial.
CNH Industrial entered into a strategic and exclusive Heavy-Duty Truck partnership with Nikola in September 2019 as the lead Series D investor, with a $250 million stake. IVECO and FPT Industrial, the commercial vehicle and powertrain brands of CNH Industrial, recently announced they will manufacture, through their European Joint Venture with Nikola Motor Company, the Nikola TRE, battery electric (BEV) Heavy-Duty Truck, at IVECO’s Ulm, Germany manufacturing site. Start of production is anticipated within the first half of 2021.
“Nikola’s unswerving ambition to comprehensively transform our industry and its environmental footprint represents a great non-cyclical growth path for the business. Listing at NASDAQ, in order to raise funds in today´s market environment, is clear recognition and support of the project’s strategic direction,” said Gerrit Marx, President Commercial and Speciality Vehicles, CNH Industrial.
CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI) is a global leader in the capital goods sector with established industrial experience, a wide range of products and a worldwide presence. Each of the individual brands belonging to the Company is a major international force in its specific industrial sector: Case IH, New Holland Agriculture and Steyr for tractors and agricultural machinery; Case and New Holland Construction for earth moving equipment; Iveco for commercial vehicles; Iveco Bus and Heuliez Bus for buses and coaches; Iveco Astra for quarry and construction vehicles; Magirus for firefighting vehicles; Iveco Defence Vehicles for defence and civil protection; and FPT Industrial for engines and transmissions.
