Operator
And our next question comes from Lee Cooperman with Omega Family Office.
Leon G. Cooperman - Omega Advisors, Inc.—President, CEO & Chairman
I have 3 questions, if I could just put them out there, and you can handle them any way you like. Roughly, what is the cash flow characteristics of remainco? Is that a business that’s going to generate cash or use cash, #1? Number two, really, to get more granularity on the other questions. Any company can use their cash flow to either acquire, pay dividends, spend on CapEx or stock repurchase. How will you prioritize these different uses of cash in terms of going forward? Dividends, acquisitions, Capex, stock repurchase? And finally, just out of curiosity, will this transaction result in a gain or a loss upon — at closing? And congratulations.
Jonathon M. Singer - RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc.—Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Thank you. So in the short term, the business will be a cash user in 2020, particularly as we separate and make the investments necessary for it to be a stand-alone business. We’ll provide detailed guidance around the profile as we complete the planning and the separation and get closer to the close. You outlined — as we indicated, we’re evaluating the capital structure of the business and we’ll go through that evaluation in conjunction with the finalization of the cash needs as a result of the separation. And I think we’ll have a better answer for you on that question in conjunction with close. And then what was the third question?
Camille I. Farhat - RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc.—CEO, President & Director
Whether we’ll have a gain.
Jonathon M. Singer - RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc.—Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Yes, we’ll — we will have a fairly significant gain as a result of the transaction and part of the difference between the proceeds and the payoff of debt and what’s going to remain on the balance sheet is the taxes that we anticipate playing on the transaction. So hopefully, that answers your question.
Leon G. Cooperman - Omega Advisors, Inc.—President, CEO & Chairman
It does, yes. And one other one. I assume you would respond like most companies do, but with the simplification of the company, we might be a more desirable acquisition candidate for somebody who wants a pure play. Do we have a strong desire to be independent? Or we’ll do whatever is right for the shareholders?
Jonathon M. Singer - RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc.—Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Well, I think as we’ve demonstrated with this transaction that we just completed, our focus is on the creation of shareholder value. And I think we’ve been saying for well over a year that The Street didn’t appreciate the value of the 2 pieces within the business and that we had an OEM business that was worth more than our enterprise value and the spine business was kind of right around the tree.
And so I think as we did that internal valuation, we felt the best path forward for shareholder value was this transaction that we have in front of us. And so I think as a leadership team and a board, we’ve demonstrated that we prioritize the creation of shareholder value, and we take that responsibility seriously. And so I think we have a good track record that you should look to as you ask that question.