Key Points The company is being taken private in a deal valued at nearly $4 billion. Its new owner will be an affiliate of private equity firm Lone Star Funds. 10 stocks we like better than Hillenbrand › One of the better-performing stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Wednesday was Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI). The specialized industrial company saw its share price leap more than 18% on news that it's going private in a splashy buyout deal. That rise was far more pronounced than the S&P 500's (S ...