Yahoo had to deal with some nasty
shareholder activist campaigns, and several readers asked about your thoughts on activism.
Not exact matches
A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30
shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most powerful and effective
activists in the finance industry.
That put him on the opposite side of the table from
activist investor Carl Icahn, who turned into Herbalife's largest
shareholder even as Ackman mounted a
campaign against the company.
Overall, cash returned to
shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by
activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.
Those stories repeat elsewhere and explain why many
activist campaigns to wrestle more
shareholder cash from hoarding or profligate CEOs are succeeding.
Following a multi-year period of underperforming
shareholder returns, amid a slump in comparable store sales and hampered by relatively high expenses, the Company would appear to be vulnerable to an
activist campaign.
* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety
activists pour money into
campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp
shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.
Dr. Eric Jackson's Ironfire Capital LLC had launched a ««friendly»
activist campaign targeting the company to unlock
shareholder value».
Dr. Eric Jackson's Ironfire Capital LLC, an «equity long biased and event - driven
activist investment firm», has sniffed the value and launched a ««friendly»
activist campaign targeting the company to unlock
shareholder value».
We believe that Klien and Zur's finding that confrontational activism
campaigns by entrepreneurial
shareholder activists generate significant positive returns in the 12 months following the filing of the 13D notice is further compelling evidence for Greenbackd's investment strategy.
A small Canadian
activist fund is leading a group of disgruntled
shareholders in a
campaign to break - up Research In Motion Limited (USA)(NASDAQ: RIMM).