Former hedge fund rock star Bill Ackman has attracted plenty of attention for diving headfirst into Chipotle Mexican Grill. Last year Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital acquired 10% of the troubled fast-casual Mexican-food restaurant operator believing it is possible to unlock value from the shares by improved operating performance. After a spate of bad publicity from highly publicized foodborne illness incidents, shares in Chipotle plunged from a high of $760 to well below $400 last year. Such a decline is bound to attract contrarian value investors. But as Kian Ghazi of Hawkshaw LLC argues in the March issue of Value Investor…
Hawkshaw – Bill Ackman Is Wrong On Chipotle
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