Sentences with phrase «other activist investors»

Not surprisingly, most of my efforts to seek out potential buyers, and / or other activist investors, will (by necessity) happen off - line — rest assured though, I'm already working on a promising target list of funds & firms.

i) Other Activist Investors: Any other fund (or family office, or investor) who might be interested in building a significant stake in the company, and becoming more actively involved (publicly, or privately) in unlocking Argo's intrinsic value for shareholders.

«That the largest American oil and gas company is the first to come to the table on this issue says a lot about the direction that energy markets are taking,» Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, said [pdf] in a joint press release with the other activist investor groups.

Not exact matches

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Other Roles: Ackman is a prominent activist investor, whose Pershing Square hedge fund is known for its aggressive tactics.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

P&G and others have been trimming spending under pressure from activist investors.

Certain activist investors love serial acquirers because they can create the illusion of growth by indiscriminately acquiring other companies.

It also has been a sometime tool of activist hedge and pension funds for legitimate corporate governance changes, but left - leaning state and local pension funds and union pension funds have often used it to achieve political or social ends not shared by other investors.

He and other analysts said Icahn's gambit may enrich investors by pushing up the share price, but the ultimate goal of activist investors is to make money for themselves.

Activist investor Marcato Capital Management has pushed for the «wings - beer - sports» focused casual dining operator, which owns about 50 % of its restaurants and franchises the others, to adopt a 90 % franchised model.

The latest wave of activist - investor involvement has led to a record number of spinoffs, divestitures and various other strategic reorganizations in 2014, many of which often elicit cheers from shareholders.

Here's how it works: Activist investors, usually through the hedge funds they control, typically take a large equity stake in a company to obtain board seats or other means of exerting influence.

«We recognize activist investors often advocate for firms to return excess cash to shareholders via buybacks,» Goldman's chief strategist David J. Kostin and others said in a note to clients.

Fellow billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who famously had a war of words with Ackman on CNBC in 2013, took the other side of Herbalife trade.

Much like with «activist investors», the bill includes an extremely broad definition of proxy advisors, including any firm «that provides corporate governance ratings, proxy research, analyses, shareholder services, or other similar services to shareholders of publicly traded entity.»

Deep Value is a practical guide that reveals little - known valuation metrics that activist investors and other contrarians use to identify attractive, asymmetric investment opportunities with limited downside and enormous upside.

Not mentioned was the fact that Miranda, the longtime political consultant for Klein and other politicians involved in the press event, was also working for William Ackman, an activist investor whose hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, has «shorted» Herbalife stock — a position that will reap significant rewards if its value plunges.

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In Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (Wiley Finance, 2014), I examined one such example of an undervalued, overcapitalized company that failed to take its opportunity until two activists stepped up the pressure, and the outstanding returns that followed.

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Although Wong et al hold only 0.5 % of FACT's outstanding stock, we think the presence of Bob Chapman and other noted activist and deep value investors on the register (Baupost Group holds ~ 18 %) indicates a good chance of success for the dissidents.

In contrast, BVF, an activist investor, seeks to take direct control of the company with nominees that have conflicts of interest (all but one is a BVF manager or partner), have no insight into the value of Avigen's assets, have not been forthcoming with other stockholders about their dealings, and have a record of acting in ways that are NOT in the best interests of other stockholders.

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Deep Value is also a practical guide that reveals little - known valuation metrics that activist investors and other contrarians use to identify attractive, asymmetric investment opportunities with limited downside and enormous upside — undervaluation, large cash holdings, and low payout ratios.

In our earlier post, we wrote that VVTV seemed to us to be one of the better opportunities available because it's a net net stock (i.e. a stock trading for less than its net current assets) with other valuable assets and noted activist investor Carlo Cannell of Cannell Capital has an activist position in it.

An activist looks at a company and, on that rare occasion, sees a v different enterprise vs. the company (most) other investors currently see...

I have no opinion on AVNW other than back in 2010 an extremely successful activist investor, Ramius... now Starboard Value, tried to turn the company around.

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He is best known as the author of the websites The Acquirer's Multiple ® and Greenbackd, and the books Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016, Wiley Finance), Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014, Wiley Finance), and Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012, Wiley Finance).

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How sweet that must sound to public company CEOs who are subject to Wall Street earnings expectations, demands from activist investors and myriad other short - term pressures.

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