Contrarian Corpus

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Land & Buildings 2026-04-01

Welltower Inc. WELL

Welltower's 10-year executive program could pay CEO Mitra up to $3 billion while incentivizing dilutive growth at a 144% NAV premium — shareholders should sell WELL and rotate into Ventas or AHR.

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Muddy Waters 2026-03-30

SoFi Technologies SOFI

SOFI booked a $312M JPMorgan borrowing as a loan sale, inflating ~$1B of EBITDA and enriching management while shareholders absorb ~15% annual dilution.

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Muddy Waters 2026-03-22

SoFi Technologies SOFI

SOFI's silence on 11 specific accounting questions confirms Muddy Waters' view that 2025 Adjusted EBITDA is inflated ~90% via mislabeled financings, hidden debt, and misstated risk retention.

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Muddy Waters 2026-03-17

SoFi Technologies, Inc. SOFI

SoFi's $1,054M reported 2025 EBITDA is ~90% inflated via manipulated charge-off rates, off-balance-sheet VIEs and subsidized seller-financed sales that feed CEO Noto's comp — real EBITDA is ~$103M.

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Starboard Value 2026-02-17

Tripadvisor, Inc. TRIP

Tripadvisor's Board has tolerated ~50% value destruction under CEO Goldberg; Starboard demands a sale of the entire company or will run a majority-slate proxy fight at the 2026 meeting.

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Elliott Management 2026-01-27

Toyota Industries Corporation 6201.T

Toyota Real Estate's ¥18,800 TOB undervalues Toyota Industries by 39% versus NAV and 85% on core business; shareholders should refuse to tender and pursue a standalone plan instead.

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Elliott Management 2026-01-27

Toyota Industries Corporation 6201

Toyota Industries' ¥18,800 take-private undervalues the company by 39%; shareholders should reject the tender and pursue a Standalone Plan worth >¥40,000 per share.

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Elliott Management 2026-01-18

Toyota Industries Corporation 6201

Toyota Industries' ¥18,800 take-private undervalues NAV ¥26,134 by 40%; rejecting the TOB and executing Elliott's Standalone Plan unlocks >¥40,000 per share by 2028.

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Elliott Management 2026-01-18

Toyota Industries Corporation 6201

Toyota Fudosan's ¥18,800 squeeze-out of Toyota Industries undervalues NAV by ~40%; reject the TOB and back Elliott's Standalone Plan targeting >¥40,000 per share by 2028.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2025-09-01

CoreWeave, Inc. CRWV

CoreWeave is a debt-fueled, undifferentiated GPU rental stopgap with 71% Microsoft concentration and sub-WACC returns; fair value is $6–13, or 88–95% downside.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2025-09-01

Pure Storage, Inc. PSTG

Pure Storage's hyperscaler dream is hype: HDDs dominate at 5-6x TCO advantage, the Meta deal is replicable, and Pure deserves a peer multiple, implying ~55% downside to $35.

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Engine Capital 2025-08-11

Avantor, Inc. AVTR

Avantor's board has presided over five years of self-inflicted operational and capital-allocation failures; a refreshed board, cost discipline, buybacks and portfolio optimization can deliver 97-134% upside by 2027.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2025-08-01

Aurora Innovation, Inc. AUR

Aurora's autonomous trucking vision is a dead end: tech can only enable hub-and-spoke freight, drayage kills the economics, and the real TAM is smaller than the company's $13bn market cap.

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Ancora 2025-05-16

Forward Air Corporation FWRD

Ancora urges FWRD shareholders to vote AGAINST Chair Mayes, Polit, and Tucker — the directors behind the disastrous 2023 Omni acquisition that destroyed ~80% of equity value — to force an expedited sale.

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Elliott Management 2025-05-15

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate structure masks value; electing Elliott's four nominees to execute the Streamline 66 plan and fix governance lifts shares from $103 to $180+ (75% upside).

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Carl Icahn 2025-05-12

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's refining-plus-midstream conglomerate trades at a 6.1x discount to an 8.1x SOTP; breaking it up and replacing complacent directors unlocks ~75% upside to $183.

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Muddy Waters 2025-05-07

AppLovin Corporation APP

Muddy Waters is short AppLovin; the CEO and CTO's March 2025 denials of persistent identifiers are demonstrably false, exposing APP to deplatforming, regulatory, and margin-compression risks.

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Carl Icahn 2025-05-06

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66 has underperformed Marathon by 511% under a complacent board; electing Elliott's four nominees and spinning Midstream/CPChem/JET unlocks ~75% upside ($103 → $183).

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Elliott Management 2025-05-06

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66 is a conglomerate trading at a refiner multiple; replace four directors, spin Midstream/CPChem/JET, and buy back 80% of shares for ~75% upside to $183.

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Elliott Management 2025-05-01

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66 has squandered value through a failed midstream pivot and a captured board; electing Elliott's four nominees and separating midstream unlocks ~$40B+ of trapped value.

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Elliott Management 2025-05-01

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's dilutive midstream pivot has destroyed TSR versus refining peers; a midstream spin and refreshed governance — as at Marathon and Suncor — can unlock the buried value.

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Elliott Management 2025-05-01

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's board has been captured by CEO-Chairman Mark Lashier; electing Elliott's four Gold Card nominees will restore independence and unlock value at this peer-lagging refiner.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-29

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66 is an underperforming energy conglomerate; adding Elliott's four operator-nominees to the board and simplifying the portfolio will reverse years of peer-lagging returns.

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Carl Icahn 2025-04-28

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate structure and failed governance have cost shareholders 97% vs. peers; spinning Midstream and reconstituting the board targets $183/share — +75% upside.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-28

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate discount and lagging refining execution have cost shareholders 450% vs peers; spinning midstream, divesting CPChem, and refreshing the board unlock ~75% upside to $183.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-28

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate structure has trapped value and lagged peers by 97% over 5 years; spinning midstream, fixing refining and refreshing the board unlocks ~75% upside to $183/share.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-17

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate structure masks refining underperformance; spinning midstream, monetizing the chemicals JV, refreshing the board and destaggering elections will unlock Marathon-style peer-gap upside.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-15

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's three-business conglomerate is the root cause of peer underperformance; electing Elliott's four nominees and fully separating midstream from refining unlocks substantial value.

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Elliott Management 2025-04-03

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's inefficient conglomerate structure hides $40B+ midstream value; spinning it off, refocusing on refining, and refreshing the Board could lift shares from ~$120 to $200+.

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Muddy Waters 2025-03-27

AppLovin APP

AppLovin's e-commerce ad boom is built on fingerprinting that violates Meta/Google/Apple TOS; only 25-35% of sales are incremental and Q1 churn is already 23%.

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Elliott Management 2025-03-27

Phillips 66 PSX

PSX has underperformed peers for a decade and the CEO is talking down the stock

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Starboard Value 2025-03-26

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk's long-term share price and margin underperformance reflects a board incapable of holding management accountable; electing Starboard's three nominees installs oversight needed to drive non-GAAP operating margins to 41-42% by FY2028.

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Elliott Management 2025-03-18

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate structure masks world-class midstream and chemicals assets; separating them, fixing refining, and refreshing the board closes a decade-long 188% TSR gap versus peers.

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Oasis Management 2025-02-26

Kao Corporation 4452.JP

Kao is Japan's underperforming FMCG giant; adding five expert directors with FMCG, cosmetics and digital expertise plus performance-aligned pay can close the peer gap and revive growth.

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Oasis Management 2025-02-26

Kao Corporation 4452 JT

Kao's world-class beauty brands are squandered by an insular Japanese board; adding five global FMCG outside directors and performance-linked pay can close the gap to L'Oreal and Beiersdorf.

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Ancora 2025-02-19

United States Steel Corporation X

U.S. Steel has lagged peers by 227 points under Burritt; with the Nippon deal dead, Ancora's slate would install Stelco-turnaround CEO Kestenbaum to fix the company as a standalone public co.

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Elliott Management 2025-02-11

Phillips 66 PSX

Phillips 66's conglomerate hides world-class midstream worth $40bn+; spinning midstream, closing the $3.75/bbl refining gap to Valero, and refreshing the board can lift PSX from $120 to $200+.

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Elliott Management 2025-02-11

Phillips 66 PSX

Conglomerate structure hides a Midstream worth >$40bn standalone; market gives refining ~$1bn of credit

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Elliott Management 2025-02-11

Phillips 66 PSX

Inefficient conglomerate structure trades like a refiner despite ~40% of EBITDA from midstream

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Engine Capital 2025-01-17

Smiths Group plc SMIN

Smiths' four-segment conglomerate structure masks a ~50-60% SOTP discount; the Board should launch a strategic review to sell the company or spin John Crane into a U.S. listing.

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Muddy Waters 2025-01-15

FTAI Aviation Ltd. FTAI

FTAI is a dressed-up engine-leasing business posing as a high-margin MRO — whole-engine sales counted as three modules and intra-segment depreciation transfers fabricate the aerospace-aftermarket story.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2025-01-09

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. RCAT

Red Cat's $1bn valuation rests on inflating a $23M/year Army drone contract into a $350M sole-source bonanza, with a factory that can't scale and insiders heading for the exits.

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Oasis Management 2024-12-17

Kao Corporation 4452

Kao's Nomination Committee rushed its 2025 AGM director slate two months early to bypass Oasis's five independent candidates — poor governance demanding a reopened, transparent process.

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Oasis Management 2024-12-05

Kao Corporation 4452

Kao is a sleeping FMCG giant whose under-ambition, inefficiency, and lack of focus have destroyed EVA; adding five independent directors with FMCG operating experience can unlock peer-level returns.

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Engine Capital 2024-12-01

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Dye & Durham's Board and CEO Matt Proud destroyed value chasing a $1bn EBITDA target through reckless M&A; Engine's six-director slate and new CEO can triple the share price to $46 in three years.

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Palliser Capital 2024-12-01

Rio Tinto RIO

Rio Tinto's 29-year-old dual-listed structure has destroyed ~US$50bn of value; unifying into a single Ltd-led entity unlocks +27% near-term upside and restores scrip-M&A firepower.

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Muddy Waters 2024-11-20

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. ELF

ELF's imports collapsed while inventory and revenue kept soaring; reconciling the two suggests $138-188mm of overstated sales and a likely fraud.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2024-11-01

Oklo Inc. OKLO

Oklo is a $3bn pre-revenue SPAC nuclear story whose 5x-lowballed fuel costs, unrealistic 2027 NRC timeline, and inexperienced 'Nuclear Bros' management mean shares should collapse as reality intrudes.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-10-21

BP Plc BP

Bluebell publishes ten pointed questions BP must answer at the 29 Oct 2024 Q3 call, demanding transparency on abandoned EBITDA, production and energy-transition targets and faulting Board oversight.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-10-07

BP Plc BP

BP's ideologically driven 2023 strategy has failed; the Chair and Lead Independent Director must go, and the leaked U-turn on oil output breaches listing rules.

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Starboard Value 2024-10-01

Pfizer Inc. PFE

Pfizer destroyed $20-60bn of value since 2019 despite a $40bn COVID windfall; Starboard wants the board to hold Bourla accountable for peer-median R&D/M&A returns.

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Starboard Value 2024-10-01

Pfizer Inc. PFE

Pfizer squandered its $40bn COVID windfall on overpriced M&A while delivering almost none of the 15 promised blockbusters; the Board must hold management accountable.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-09-25

BP Plc BP

Renewables strategy is a series of U-turns with no consistency

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Engine Capital 2024-09-13

Upwork Inc. UPWK

Engine argues Upwork is undervalued at ~6.5x EBITDA and that a refreshed board plus fixing the marketplace, focusing Enterprise, cutting bloat and aggressive buybacks unlocks substantial upside.

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Engine Capital 2024-09-11

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Dye & Durham's board broke its no-M&A pledge, re-levered to 5.3x, and lost six executives; shareholders need a Special Meeting and board change to close the peer valuation gap.

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Elliott Management 2024-08-26

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV

Shareholders lost more than 50% over three years under Kelly and Jordan

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Kerrisdale Capital 2024-08-15

Lumen Technologies LUMN

Lumen's 400% AI-fueled rally is an optical illusion: $5bn in PCF deals is construction-contractor funding worth ~$1/share, masking an insolvent, secularly declining telco with $19bn debt.

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Starboard Value 2024-08-06

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk's premier 93%-gross-margin software franchise is squandered under CEO Anagnost; Starboard demands cost cuts, compensation overhaul, buybacks and CEO re-evaluation to reach 45%+ margins and ~$15.50 FCF/share by FY2027.

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Starboard Value 2024-08-01

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk's premier software franchise is squandered under CEO Anagnost — peer-lagging margins, missed Investor Day targets and manipulated billings demand a Board-led overhaul to unlock 45% operating margins.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-07-23

BP Plc BP

BP's Board greenlit an unlawful solar-planning strategy and a value-destroying green pivot; replace the Chair, Senior Independent Director and CEO, or halt the renewables burn.

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