Sentences with phrase «target of activist investors»

The company, which has seen its revenues fall sharply in recent years, has become a target of activist investors amid its struggles.

Calgary - based oil and gas producer Talisman Energy has become the target of an activist investor.

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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.

In crafting it, she took into account board composition and tenure, capital ratio and compensation, working down a checklist of anything and everything that might make the company an attractive target for activist investors.

One of the largest activist investors in the world is taking on his biggest target yet.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

Nestle is being targeted by activist investor Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point, which has built a stake of more than $ US3.5 billion ($ 4.6 billion) in the world's biggest food company.

The company is the target of two activist investors, which could help unlock value for shareholders and has led to increased pressure for improving results at Juniper.

A recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns during the period surrounding an activist's ownership disclosure and an additional 11.4 % abnormal return during the following year.

• The right activists: If the median activist hedge fund investor essentially breaks even, as the evidence suggests, a blunderbuss approach of investing in a company targeted by any activist investor is unlikely to generate value.

A study by Greenwood and Schor notes that while a strategy of buying stocks that have been targeted by activist investors generates excess returns, almost all of those returns can be attributed to the subset of these firms that get taken over in hostile acquisitons.

-LSB-...] recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns -LSB-...]

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.

Activist investors would not be able to do this if they did not conduct comprehensive research and analysis of the target company.

And speaking of catalysts, it's a brave new world out there for tech companies — activist investors now have an appetite for targeting & harrying even the largest of tech companies to declare a dividend, do a spin - off, buy back shares, or even take on debt.

(Bloomberg)-- Taubman Centers Inc. surged after Jonathan Litt, an activist investor known for targeting real estate companies, pushed for the mall owner to cut costs or consider a sale of the company...