After The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Platform Specialty Products is in advanced talks to sell its agricultural unit to Wilmcote Holdings for about $3B, or $4B including debt, Morgan Stanley analyst Neel Kumar noted that the $4B reported offer from Wilmcote is lower than the $4.25B reportedly offered by a consortium led by Blackstone in July 2017. However, he thinks a potential sale could accelerate deleveraging and believes investors likely prefer an outright sale of the ag business to an IPO. Kumar keeps an Equal Weight rating and $12 price target on Platform Specialty shares.