The third quarter appeared to be one of mixed emotions for Barry Rosenstein’s Jana Partners. While he was able to get closer to notching another activist scalp on his bedpost with PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ:PETM), he was also bedeviled by what he calls idiosyncratic events at Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG)’s and Civeo Corp (NYSE:CVEO), where he has chosen to take decisive action on the board as a result. The fund also entered into several new positions in firms such as McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD), Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) and Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HTZ). Jana Partners down 2.7% in 3Q Jana Partners had…
Jana Partners Has Its Way With PetSmart; Adds RAX, HTZ
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.