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ECA logoEnCana (NYSE: ECA - option chain) shares are rising today after the company announced it is planning to split into two companies: a natural gas producer and an integrated oil firm. ECA had originally planned to do this a year ago, but halted the plan after the financial crisis made the move more difficult. If you think that the stock won't fall by too much in the coming months, then now could be a good time to look at a bullish hedged trade on ECA.

ECA opened this morning at $58.27. So far today the stock has hit a low of $57.64 and a high of $59.00. As of 11:40, ECA is trading at $58.52 up $3.89 (7.1%). The chart for ECA looks bullish and S&P gives ECA a positive 4 STARS (out of 5) buy ranking.

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Private equity firms, hedge funds, and investment banks are always looking for hidden values in public shares. It is no accident that an investor like Carl Icahn buys into Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT). He thinks the company's intrinsic value is well above the stock price.

24/7 Wall St. has begun to take a look at the break-up values of a number of large cap companies. Firms with market caps of over $100 billion have been kept off the list because they are likely to be too large for private equity buy-outs. But the companies on this list may well end up as targets. The full explanation of the methodology is here.

Some of the notable public firms with differences between the break-up value and current stock price include:

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