Pirelli skids to 8-month low after Brembo sells stake
Updates share moves, adds trader and analyst comments
** Shares in Italian tyre maker Pirelli PIRC.MI fall as much as 4.7% to an eight-month low after premium brakes maker Brembo BRBI.MI sells its entire stake of 5.58% in the group
** Brembo completed the sale on Wednesday through accelerated book building for 5.07 euros ($5.61) per share, a 5% discount from Tuesday's closing price of 5.34 euros
** Brembo had builtits stake in Pirelli from 2020, feeding speculation about a merger of the two groups
** It has now abandoned the long-term project due to several reasons, a Milan-based trader says
** Pirelli's investor Camfin said on Wednesday it bought an additional 2.5% in the group, without disclosing the price
** "We would not be surprised to find that Camfin may have bought some of the shares sold by Brembo," Equita says, adding it is "obvious" that majority shareholder Sinochem 600500.SS will also divest
** MTP, the investment company of Executive Vice Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera which operates through Camfin, increased its total stake to 25.28% and approved a further stake acquisition for up to a total 29.9%
** By 0851, Pirelli is down 3.3% while Brembo is up 3.4%
** Equita says the divestment will reduce Brembo's debt and backtrack on an investment which was "never clearly explained", also removing perceived risk linked to a potential merger
($1 = 0.9038 euros)
Reporting by Alessandro Parodi and Andrea Mandalà
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