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Texas Instruments TXN
TI's rigid $5bn/year capex ramp is building ~50% excess capacity and has collapsed FCF per share 75%; flex capex to demand and commit to $9.00+ per share by 2026.
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The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney's decade of underperformance stems from a board lacking focus and accountability; electing Peltz and Rasulo brings ownership mentality to fix succession, streaming economics and capital allocation.
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V4
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The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney lost its way under a distracted, unaccountable board; replacing two directors with Peltz and Rasulo restores focus on DTC margins, CEO succession, and capital discipline.
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The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney's board has failed shareholders — TSR lags peers by 401% over ten years — so Trian is nominating Peltz and former CFO Rasulo to restore governance, accountability, and 'the magic.'
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V2
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Phillips 66 PSX
Phillips 66 has lost investor trust by taking its eye off refining; adding two refining-experienced directors — and Marathon's 2019 playbook if targets slip — unlocks ~75% upside to $205+.
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Fund
Target
Thesis
Scores
Jun 10, 2024
Carl Icahn
Southwest Airlines
LUV
Southwest has the worst margins of any major U.S. airline under a 74-year legacy leadership team; a new outside CEO, refreshed board and modernized commercial strategy can deliver a $49 share price, 77% upside.
N5
V4
Jun 05, 2024
Scorpion Capital
Lasertec Corporation
6920
Lasertec, hailed as 'Japan's ASML,' is a $23B accounting fraud — a textbook inventory scheme masking a defective EUV tool destined for a 65-70% write-down reminiscent of Olympus and Toshiba.
N5
V2
Jun 05, 2024
Scorpion Capital
Lasertec Corporation
6920
Lasertec — Japan's most-traded stock at $23B market cap — is a colossal accounting fraud whose defective EUV mask-inspection tool and sham 'Innovation Park' mirror Olympus and Toshiba before collapse.
N4
V2
Jun 05, 2024
Scorpion Capital
Lasertec Corporation
6920
Lasertec — Japan's most-traded stock at $23B — is inflating inventory to hide that its flagship ACTIS EUV mask-inspection tool is defective; a 65-70% writedown will erase 85% of retained earnings.
N5
V4
Jun 05, 2024
Scorpion Capital
Lasertec Corporation
6920
Lasertec, Japan's most actively traded stock at a $23B cap and 17x sales, is a textbook accounting fraud — a defective EUV tool, fake fab, and looming impairment will wipe out most earnings.
N5
V3
Jun 03, 2024
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group S.A.
CPIPGR
CPI PG's controlling shareholder Vitek swapped €273m of personal debt for Dubai properties still under construction, sticking CPI PG with ~€220m of hidden progress payments while pocketing ~€118m.
N4
V2
Jun 01, 2024
Kerrisdale Capital
Riot Platforms, Inc.
RIOT
Riot Platforms is a serial-diluting bitcoin miner with $140k+ all-in cost per coin, rising Texas regulatory risk, and a broken model increasingly obviated by low-fee BTC ETFs.
N4
V3
May 29, 2024
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group S.A.
CPIPGR
CPI Property Group's luxury London transactions — same-day flips, offshore proxies, and uneconomic sales to PEPs — bear hallmarks of money laundering integration using bondholder funds.
N4
V3
May 28, 2024
Elliott Management
Texas Instruments
TXN
TI's rigid $5bn/year capex ramp is building ~50% excess capacity and has collapsed FCF per share 75%; flex capex to demand and commit to $9.00+ per share by 2026.
N4
V3
May 18, 2024
Engine Capital
Parkland Corporation
PKI
Parkland's Board is entrenched and credibility-damaged; Engine (2.6% owner) demands an immediate strategic review with an investment bank to surface private-market value above the depressed public stock price.
N4
V1
May 08, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.
BOOT
Boot Barn's stock is propped up by Taylor Swift/Beyonce hype and a flawed big-box expansion masking executive red flags, bloated capex and stretched valuation; 40-50% downside to $51-$62.
N4
V3
May 07, 2024
Engine Capital
Parkland Corporation
PKI
Parkland's independent directors refuse to buy meaningful amounts of their own stock despite insisting the strategy will deliver value — that credibility gap demands each personally purchase at least 5,000 shares.
N4
V1
May 01, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BP plc
BP
BP under Lund and Looney's failed energy-transition strategy has produced sector-worst TSR, a record valuation discount, and governance failures — the board must engage with dissenting shareholders.
N3
V2
Apr 30, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BlackRock
BLK
BlackRock preaches stewardship to others while combining Chair and CEO under Larry Fink; shareholders should vote FOR Bluebell's Item 6 to require an independent Chair from 2025.
N4
V2
Apr 25, 2024
Oasis Management
Kao Corporation
4452.JP
Kao has top-decile brands (Curel, Biore, Molton Brown) but bottom-decile management with a 'growth allergy' — fixing it Beiersdorf-style unlocks 76-97% upside.
N4
V4
Apr 23, 2024
White Diamond Research
authID Inc.
AUID
authID is a $50M+ micro-cap at 300x sales whose selfie second-factor product a former top executive says has no product-market fit — $1 price target.
N3
V2
Apr 22, 2024
Ancora
Norfolk Southern
NSC
Norfolk Southern is the only Class I rail without PSR; electing Ancora's seven nominees replaces Alan Shaw with Barber and Boychuk to redesign the network and reach $420/share.
N4
V3
Apr 18, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BP plc
BP
BP's pledge to 'enhance lives' and protect biodiversity is exposed as hollow after a UK court quashed Lightsource BP's Burnhope solar farm for covertly oversizing the project.
N3
V2
Apr 17, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
PowerSchool Holdings, Inc.
PWSC
Spruce Point is short PWSC: ESSER-fueled K-12 growth is about to hit a fiscal cliff while aggressive accounting, SOPIPA privacy exposure, and 5.8x true leverage imply 30-60% downside.
N5
V3
Apr 17, 2024
Engine Capital
Parkland Corporation
PKI
Parkland has failed on operations, capital allocation and governance; a strategic sale at 8-9x EBITDA would deliver ~$64/share, a 56% premium superior to the risky standalone plan.
N4
V2
Apr 15, 2024
Ancora
Norfolk Southern Corporation
NSC
Norfolk Southern is the worst-performing Class I railroad under Alan Shaw; replacing the Board and installing UPS/CSX operators to run PSR closes the 780bps OR gap and unlocks $420 per share.
N5
V4
Apr 11, 2024
Bluebell Capital
TIM S.p.A. (Telecom Italia)
TIT
Vote Bluebell's slate to replace TIM's worst-in-class CEO Labriola with Google Cloud exec Laurence Lafont, halt strategic chaos, and unlock ~100% upside versus European telco peers.
N4
V3
Apr 09, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BlackRock, Inc.
BLK
BlackRock's governance trails the S&P 500 on every metric, its stewardship team is overwhelmed, and TSR has merely tracked the market since 2009 — separate Chair and CEO to restore independent oversight.
N4
V3
Apr 09, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BlackRock
BLK
BlackRock's combined Chair/CEO and below-peer governance have delivered only market-matching TSR since 2009 and fuel greenwashing risk; shareholders should vote FOR an Independent Chair at the 2024 AGM.
N4
V3
Apr 09, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BlackRock
BLK
BlackRock's combined CEO/Chair role and entrenched Lead Independent Director leave the board without true oversight; bylaws should mandate an Independent Chair from AGM 2025.
N4
V2
Apr 08, 2024
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group
CPIPG
CPIPG's 2023 results show undisclosed related-party transfers to controlling shareholder Vitek, aggressive fair-value inflation, and an unreconciled 92% equity collapse at GSG Berlin — management must answer on the call.
N4
V2
Apr 03, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
WSP Global Inc.
WSP
WSP Global is a $27bn engineering roll-up masking financial stress with accounting tricks, scandalous leadership, and tax-evasion allegations — Spruce Point sees 25-50% downside to C$110-$165.
N4
V3
Mar 26, 2024
Ancora
Norfolk Southern
NSC
Norfolk Southern is the worst-performing Class I railroad under CEO Alan Shaw's failed 'resilience railroading'; elect Ancora's slate to install Jim Barber as CEO, adopt true PSR, and unlock ~60% upside.
N4
V3
Mar 14, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
Enfusion, Inc.
ENFN
Enfusion is a no-moat SaaS with tainted leadership, deteriorating unit economics, and revenue-reporting anomalies; Spruce Point sees 40-60% downside to $3.70-$5.60.
N5
V3
Mar 05, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
Zillow Group, Inc.
Z
Zillow's Premier Agent core is saturated, NAR lawsuits will compress commissions, Flex/Super App cannot replace it, and aggressive revenue recognition masks decline — shares worth $23-$35 vs $57.
N4
V3
Mar 01, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney's world-class IP is being squandered by a complacent Board: elect Peltz and Rasulo to fix succession, restore Netflix-like DTC margins, and close a 401% TSR peer gap.
N5
V4
Mar 01, 2024
Wolfpack Research
B. Riley Financial
RILY
B. Riley is a web of self-dealing related-party loans to alleged Ponzi co-conspirator Brian Kahn; expect qualified audit, unfiled 10-K, fire sales, and Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
N4
V2
Mar 01, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney's decade of underperformance stems from a board lacking focus and accountability; electing Peltz and Rasulo brings ownership mentality to fix succession, streaming economics and capital allocation.
N5
V4
Mar 01, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney lost its way under a distracted, unaccountable board; replacing two directors with Peltz and Rasulo restores focus on DTC margins, CEO succession, and capital discipline.
N5
V4
Feb 26, 2024
Kerrisdale Capital
Carvana Co.
CVNA
Carvana at $70 is priced as a tech disruptor, but it's 'just a dealership' with CarMax-like unit economics and a levered balance sheet — fair value is $16, -77%.
N4
V3
Feb 15, 2024
Wolfpack Research
Innodata, Inc.
INOD
Wolfpack is short INOD: its 'AI platform' is 4,000 offshore data-entry workers in disguise, insiders dumped $13m timed to AI press releases, and a dilutive raise will send shares back below $3.
N4
V2
Feb 08, 2024
Muddy Waters
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
FFH
Muddy Waters is short Fairfax Financial, arguing it is 'the GE of Canada' — a serial accounting manipulator whose book value is overstated by ~$4.5bn (~18%) through value-destructive transactions.
N4
V3
Feb 01, 2024
Ancora
Elanco Animal Health
ELAN
Elanco has destroyed billions under CEO Simmons and an insular classified board; replacing four directors at the 2024 AGM installs accountability and unlocks the animal-health turnaround.
N4
V4
Jan 25, 2024
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group S.A.
CPIPGR
CPI PG's Italian landbank and St. Tropez villa deals show ~€100M in unexplained cash and receivables gaps, suggesting controlling shareholder Vitek is using bondholder money to strip assets and launder cash.
N4
V3
Jan 22, 2024
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group S.A.
CPIPGR
Muddy Waters is short CPI Property Group's credit: its €19.2B portfolio appears inflated via implausible Berlin gains, cherry-picked Bubny landbank comps, and occupancy rates realtor listings show are overstated by ~2x.
N4
V3
Jan 22, 2024
Engine Capital
Parkland Corporation
PKI
Parkland's entrenched board has driven a decade of peer underperformance and a sector-low 6.9x multiple; a shareholder-led board refreshment is needed to close the valuation gap.
N4
V2
Jan 18, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney's board has failed shareholders — TSR lags peers by 401% over ten years — so Trian is nominating Peltz and former CFO Rasulo to restore governance, accountability, and 'the magic.'
N3
V2
Jan 17, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
MSCI Inc.
MSCI
Spruce Point rates MSCI a Strong Sell: accounting red flags, nepotism-like M&A, eroding ESG lead and a CAO resignation expose 55-65% ($190-$244) downside to MSCI's premium multiple.
N5
V3
Dec 11, 2023
Wolfpack Research
Ramaco Resources, Inc.
METC
Wolfpack is short METC: Brook Mine's REE concentration sits below crustal average, processing economics imply an $88bn loss, and insiders have dumped $96M into WSJ-fueled hype.
N4
V2
Dec 06, 2023
Muddy Waters
Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.
BXMT
BXMT's borrowers only stay current because of expiring rate swaps; as ~$16B of swaps terminate in 2024, dividend cuts of 33-85% and $2.5-4.5B of loan losses could wipe out the $4B market cap.
N4
V2
Dec 06, 2023
Palliser Capital
Samsung C&T Corporation
028260 KS
Samsung C&T trades at a 63% discount to its $40.4bn NAV; fixing capital allocation, governance and the opaque group structure closes a $25bn value gap worth ~170% upside.
N5
V4
Nov 29, 2023
Elliott Management
Phillips 66
PSX
Phillips 66 has lost investor trust by taking its eye off refining; adding two refining-experienced directors — and Marathon's 2019 playbook if targets slip — unlocks ~75% upside to $205+.
N4
V2
Nov 21, 2023
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group S.A.
CPIPGR
Muddy Waters is short CPI PG's credit: controlling shareholder Radovan Vitek is brazenly looting the company via undisclosed related-party deals — ~50% of €1.2bn examined transactions appear suspect.
N4
V3
Nov 09, 2023
Spruce Point Capital
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
ELF
ELF Beauty's premium valuation relies on viral Gen-Z marketing led by Movers+Shakers, an agency whose founders have NXIVM-cult ties — reputational backlash points to 45%-65% downside.
N5
V3
Nov 06, 2023
Citron Research
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
APLS
Citron shorts Apellis, arguing its new Geographic Atrophy drug Syfovre faces an imminent FDA warning as AAO ophthalmologists reject it 83%-17% and vasculitis cases mount.
N4
V2
Nov 01, 2023
Muddy Waters
Sunrun
RUN
Sunrun's Subscriber metric is fabricated — inflated ~20% above EIA filings — letting it overclaim ~$205M in IRS tax credits and prop up a fictitious valuation; Muddy Waters remains short.
N4
V2
Oct 17, 2023
Ancora
Forward Air Corporation
FWRD
Forward Air's $3.2B Omni Logistics deal destroys shareholder value; block the deal, replace CEO Tom Schmitt and the Board, and shares rerate to $140-$145.
N4
V3
Oct 17, 2023
Starboard Value
GoDaddy
GDDY
GoDaddy missed its 2022 Investor Day commitments as Tech & Development costs ballooned; cutting costs to hit 33%+ EBITDA margins re-rates FCF/share to $10+ and closes the peer-multiple gap.
N3
V3
Oct 17, 2023
Starboard Value
GoDaddy, News Corp, Fortrea
Starboard pitches three ideas: News Corp should separate Digital Real Estate to unlock ~50% upside, GoDaddy should expand margins to 33%+, and Fortrea can hit 18% peer margins under Tom Pike.
N4
V3
Oct 13, 2023
Starboard Value
Multiple (GoDaddy, News Corp, Fortrea)
GDDY, NWSA, FTRE
Starboard pitches three activist ideas at the 2023 13D Monitor Summit — GoDaddy margin expansion, News Corp digital-real-estate separation, and Fortrea CRO profitability fix — each with 50%+ upside.
N4
V3
Oct 04, 2023
Spruce Point Capital
Rollins Inc.
ROL
Rollins is the 'Cockroach' of activism: SEC settlement, auditor swap, family insider sales, and a 27x EBITDA multiple set up 30-40% downside as Rentokil/Terminix and PE roll-ups erode the moat.
N4
V3
Oct 01, 2023
Starboard Value
Fortrea Holdings Inc.
FTRE
Fortrea, LabCorp's spun-out CRO, earns 9% EBITDA margins versus 18% peers; CEO Tom Pike's IQVIA playbook implies $47-$72 per share, 60-144% upside at normalized margins.
N4
V3
Sep 21, 2023
Spruce Point Capital
Samsara Inc.
IOT
Samsara is a commodity-hardware vehicle-telematics company masquerading as a premium SaaS growth story; aggressive accounting inflates margins and a 16x revenue multiple implies 45%-75% downside to $6.30-$13.90.
N5
V4
Aug 09, 2023
Spruce Point Capital
Xylem Inc.
XYL
Xylem overpaid in stock for SEC-fraud-charged Evoqua, just published two contradictory cash-flow statements, and faces 30-45% downside as multiples compress toward water-industrial peers.
N5
V4
Jul 13, 2023
Spruce Point Capital
Hims & Hers Health, Inc.
HIMS
HIMS is an overvalued, commoditized ED/hair-loss e-commerce business masquerading as healthcare, with CPoM regulatory risk and new OTC Eroxon competition driving 25-40% downside to $5.20-$6.50.
N4
V3