Sentences with phrase «targeted by activist»

-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-...]

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.

• 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.

You can try to identify companies that are poorly managed and run, and thus most likely to be targeted by activist investors.

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.

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.

A recent survey on corporate reputation conducted by the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) showed that nearly 50 % of the companies who responded had been targeted by activist citizen groups, and now engage with these non-governmental organizations in order to help improve public perceptions.

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.

Xerox has been targeted by activist investor Carl Icahn and shareholder Darwin Deason, who joined forces last week to push Xerox to explore strategic options, oust its «old guard», including its CEO, and negotiate better terms for its decades - long deal with Fujifilm.

The researchers looked at 380 board seats spread across 93 companies in the Standard & Poor's 1500 Index targeted by activists between 2011 and 2015.

Firms targeted by activists end up with more white men on their boards, often replacing women and minorities in the process, according to a study by proxy voting firm ISS.

Their target investments include a number of firms whose share prices might be influenced by high insider buying, spun - off divisions, reduced float, and targeting by activist shareholders, as well as your basic «good buys.»

Carbon Beach specializes in identifying deeply undervalued stocks targeted by activists and private equity investors.

The 150 - foot Melville Monument — commemorating Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville — in Edinburgh's St Andrew Square, was targeted by activists last year, who superglued on a new plaque to acknowledge the full extent of Dundas» brutality (his opposition to the abolition of slavery, his use of the military to enforce the Highland clearances).

Not exact matches

As for Anthony Weiner, he was targeted by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart and fellow Right - wing activists who used fake email addresses and pretended to be underage girls.

In terms of other technical IT platforms, an FSB cyber operative flagged up the «Telegram» enciphered commercial system as having been of especial concern and therefore heavily targeted by the FSB, not least because it was used frequently by Russian internal political activists and oppositionists.

Restaurant companies can make ripe targets for activists, as most are tiny by market - cap standards so amassing a sizable stake doesn't cost too much.

While Fudge knew many admired Unilever's purpose - driven corporate culture, she and her colleagues on the board were pleasantly surprised by how well it served the company when it became an activist target.

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

A wide array of people have complained about being successfully targeted by this sort of attack, including a Black Lives Matter activist and the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission.

Victorian farmers say they are being unfairly targeted by animal activists, putting pressure on their businesses and personal lives.

For the activists who were targeted by undercover police officers, justice may be done, but it certainly won't be seen to be done.

The online petition signing, which has since exceeded its target, was met with a counter online petition project, launched by Buhari's laptop activists and funded by the Presidency.

It also has led to suggestions that those who do rebel against the party line may be targeted in their seats by pro-Corbyn activists...

For instance, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — who is targeting same sorts of progressive activist and outer borough voters that Mr. Weiner could be aiming for — said his strategy wouldn't be altered by a Weiner candidacy.

However, those who do rebel against the party line may be targeted in their seats by pro-Corbyn activists.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

(The University of Cambridge abandoned plans in 2004 for a primate research lab, and activists have targeted an animal research lab being built by the University of Oxford.)

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

Environmental activists said they are heartened by the number of countries that are moved to action but said pressure must remain on nations to both improve their targets and build a way in the Paris deal to regularly review and ratchet up carbon - cutting commitments.

That program, known as JARPA II, called for taking 850 minkes, 50 humpbacks, and 50 fin whales annually, though in recent years actual captures fell far below those targets because of interference by antiwhaling activists.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

Seberg, the darling of the French New Wave era, became romantically and politically involved with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (to be played by Anthony Mackie) and became a target of the FBI for her part in the Black Power movement of the 1960s.

It isn't as if Duncan can't make this happen; in September, Virginia ended up revising its proficiency targets after the Obama administration was sufficiently embarrassed by civil rights activists and reformers over its earlier approval.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

It also found that the effects of activist activities improved long term operational performance at target firms, demonstrated by ROE and ROA increases, while evidence of positive financial and corporate governance effects were observed in the form of increased dividend payouts and lowered CEO compensation.

The study highlighted that the target firm typically outperforms the market by 7 % to 8 % over a four - week period before and after announced activist campaigns by hedge funds.

Activists target these undervalued, cash - rich companies, seeking to improve the intrinsic value and close the market price discount by reducing excess cash through increased payout ratios.

A study of 888 campaigns mounted by activist hedge funds between 2001 and 2005 finds that the typical target companies are small to mid cap companies, have above average market liquidity, trade at low price to book value ratios, are profitable with solid cash flows and pay their CEOs more than other companies in their peer group.

• Activist value investing, by its very nature, requires a thorough understanding of target firms, since you have to know where each of these firms is failing and how you would fix these problems.

Activist managers, which target governance and strategy reform, beat the MSCI World index by six percentage points a year between the start of 2008 and June 2012, according to data provider Activist Insight.

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.

Ordinarily, I'd steer clear of any workshop that promised a role - playing activity, but I'd pay good money to see TWS Executive Director / CEO Michael Hutchins (who, just last week, put the kibosh on comments by non-members, complaining that «the TWS blog site has been recently targeted by feral cat and horse activists») play the role of colony caregiver.

The Angora wool industry has been a target of criticism by animal rights activists, who claim that the rabbits are scared and injured in the process of harvesting the wool.

Plus: Münster Sculpture Projects artists announced $ 12 million gift for Denver Art Museum and LA nonprofit closes due to targeting by anti-gentrification activists

The ironic report from the front regards the situation in Gaza, there is a high Jewish population of extreme liberals and yet now some are being targeted and blacklisted by Pro-Palestinian activists, other liberals in many cases.

Violent agitators whom the French call «the autonomous» targeted one police barricade after another during an otherwise peaceful demonstration by climate activists.

In recent years, other companies targeted by shareholder activists have promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase investments in renewable energy, use more sustainable ingredients and packaging, or hold discussions on implementing take - back policies for electronics recycling.