> ## Documentation Index
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# Parent Company Removed

> A parent company relationship was cleared.

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `parent_company_removed`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    Structure
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Company Professional Network page (parent relationship).
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

A parent company relationship was cleared.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `parent_id` was populated and is now null. Spin-off or divestiture signal.
</Card>

## Magnitude

High, spin-offs are major events.

<Note>
  For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see [Magnitude buckets](/buying-signals/concepts/magnitude-buckets).
</Note>

## Why it matters

Pointing to a spin-off or divestiture. A company losing its parent has become independent, often through a spin-off or divestiture, which means it now controls its own budget and will rebuild its vendor stack.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="Independence">
    Losing a parent means newfound autonomy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stack rebuild">
    Newly independent companies re-evaluate every vendor.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Spin-off">
    Often a deliberate divestiture from the former parent.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Prime greenfield opportunity. Newly independent companies rebuild their stack.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="Parent Company Added" href="/buying-signals/signals/structure/parent-company-added">
    A parent company was set where there was none.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Parent Company Change" href="/buying-signals/signals/structure/parent-company-change">
    The parent company changed to a different one.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Subsidiary Status Change" href="/buying-signals/signals/structure/subsidiary-status-change">
    The company became or stopped being a subsidiary.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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