For most of us, even envisioning a trillion dollars is difficult to do, a few more zeros than we are used to seeing in numbers. Thus, when Apple’s market capitalization exceeded a trillion on August 2, 2018, it was greeted with commentary, and when Amazon’s market capitalization also exceeded...
Three months after Hyundai Motor scrapped a controversial restructuring plan, the South Korean carmaker is considering another restructuring to improve its corporate governance. The company’s controlling Chung family is considering selling 10% of its stake to loosen its control. Get Our Activist Investing Case Study! Get the entire 10-part series on...
Shares in MiMedx plummeted 30% after it announced Thursday that it must restate its financial results for the last six years. The embattled pharmaceutical company said its underlying business "remains strong," but that it is still unclear what the exact damage is from the restatements. Q1 hedge fund letters, conference,...
Elaine Wynn’s withhold campaign concluded this week, with a resounding success. Targeted director John Hagenbuch withdrew his name from contention the day before the annual meeting after unanimous support from proxy advisory firms and former Nevada Governor Robert Miller stepped off the board. Get Our Activist Investing Case Study! Get the...
Globally, 177 companies have faced a demand from a shareholder for at least one board seat in 2018, as of May 10, according to analysis from Activist Insight. That compares to 161 at the same point in 2017. Get Our Activist Investing Case Study! Get the entire 10-part series on our in-depth...
A New York state court has temporarily blocked Xerox's merger with Fujifilm and reopened the company’s nomination window, dealing a victory to activist investor Darwin Deason, who plans to nominate a full slate for election to Xerox’s board. Deason partnered with Carl Icahn to upend the deal, contending that...
Activists had made 55 public demands relating to deals between January 1 and March 26, which puts them on course to top last year’s total, Activist Insight has found. Get The Timeless Reading eBook in PDF Get the entire 10-part series on Timeless Reading in PDF. Save it to your desktop,...
Please see below a fact-sheet containing statistics on activist investments from February 2018. Last month’s activity was slightly ahead of the same period last year, when 76 companies were publicly subjected to activist demands globally, but down on 2016. Get The Timeless Reading eBook in PDF Get the entire 10-part series on...
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