495 documents showing 181–240
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.
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.
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.
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.
BP plc BP
BP trades at a 44% discount to US majors because Looney's pivot away from oil & gas destroys value; reverse the strategy, return capital, and unlock 50%+ upside.
News Corporation NWSA
News Corp's REA stake alone is worth $8B of its $12B EV — separating Digital Real Estate would expose Dow Jones and surface ~50% upside to ~$33/share.
Bloomin' Brands BLMN
Bloomin' Brands trades at 5.0x EBITDA vs Darden's 9.5x because of operational execution failures at Outback; Starboard's Darden playbook can narrow the gap and unlock shareholder 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.
GoDaddy Inc. GDDY
GoDaddy has missed its 2022 Investor Day targets as Tech & Dev expenses ballooned; cutting costs to a 40% growth+profitability exit rate and adding a Starboard director unlocks a ~40% valuation re-rating.
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN
Starboard, now AQN's largest holder at 7.5%, says selling the unregulated renewables fixes leverage and the payout ratio, leaving a greener regulated utility worth a peer-premium re-rating.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ARE
Alexandria's life-science office portfolio is being hit by the same WFH hurricane as traditional offices, and shares face 30-40% downside if re-rated to coastal office REIT peers.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company GT
Retail stores alone could be worth nearly Goodyear's entire market capitalization
Vitesco Technologies VTSC
Vitesco trades at €2.6B EV — less than its ICE business alone is worth (€2.9-4.3B at peer multiples); buy the stock and get the high-growth EV-powertrain unit for free.
LivePerson, Inc. LPSN
LivePerson's Founder-CEO LoCascio has destroyed value and ignored governance; Starboard is launching a 2023 proxy fight to force a CEO change or sale of the company.
Parkland Corporation PKI
Parkland's board re-nominated its 24-year chairman and set sub-cost-of-capital ROIC targets; Engine urges shareholders to WITHHOLD on all incumbents to force governance, pay, and portfolio reform.
Glencore Plc GLEN
Glencore's unsolicited Teck bid is structurally flawed; Glencore should first demerge thermal coal, Oil Marketing and Viterra, then merge with Teck to unlock a world-class transition-metals leader.
Cellnex Telecom, S.A. CLNX
Cellnex is a great asset hobbled by a board that botched CEO succession; TCI will move at the AGM to remove Kan, Shore and Reich and seat its own director.
Parkland Corporation PKI
Parkland's conglomerate mix of retail, refinery and distribution trades at a 3-turn discount to Couche-Tard; spin the non-core assets and refresh the stale board to unlock ~$45/share, roughly 55% upside.
Union Pacific Corporation UNP
UNP owns the best Class I rail franchise but ranks worst on every metric under CEO Lance Fritz; bringing back operator Jim Vena could double the stock to ~$400 by 2025.
Airbus SE AIR
TCI urges Airbus to abandon the 29.9% Evidian stake — a value-destructive, politically-motivated bailout of Atos that distracts management from fixing aircraft delivery shortfalls.
Pershing Square Holdings (fund-level annual update) PSH
PSH outperformed S&P 500 by 930bps in 2022 thanks to interest-rate hedge
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers RBA
Back the amended RBA-IAA merger: $350-900M of synergies, a Starboard/Ancora-refreshed board, and Luxor's anti-deal case is flawed — RBA should re-rate from $62 to ~$130.
Rogers Corporation ROG
Starboard's 6.5% stake in Rogers Corporation backs a board slate of specialty-materials veterans, arguing undervalued shares warrant fresh director expertise after the failed DuPont sale.
Alphabet GOOGL
Alphabet's January layoffs are a start but insufficient; management must cut headcount ~20% to 150,000 and slash excessive pay, including stock-based comp.
The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney's world-class IP is being squandered by a board that overpaid $52bn for Fox, bungled CEO succession, and is bleeding streaming losses — add Nelson Peltz to restore discipline.
The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney is in a self-inflicted crisis of governance, strategy and capital allocation; electing Nelson Peltz to the board will restore discipline, profitability and the dividend by FY 2025.
Digital Garage, Inc. 4819 JT
Digital Garage's fintech payments arm is starved by a distracted conglomerate; spinning off FinTech and dumping the Kakaku.com stake unlocks ~100% upside amid Japan's cashless boom.
Digital Garage Inc. 4819 JT
Digital Garage is missing Japan's cashless-payments wave; spinning off DG Financial Technology, divesting Kakaku, and refocusing management would nearly double the stock and lift profit before tax from JPY4.5bn to JPY11.4bn.
Capricorn Energy PLC CNE
Capricorn's board is destroying value by forcing a low-ball NewMed sale; replacing seven directors unlocks up to 400p per share via Palliser's Value Optimisation Plan.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. SIX
Six Flags' owned real estate is worth more than its entire equity value; spinning it to a REIT buyer like VICI plus fixing the botched 2022 repositioning can double the stock.
Alphabet GOOGL
Alphabet's cost base is bloated — headcount up 20% CAGR since 2017, pay 67% above Microsoft, Other Bets bleeding $20bn; cut costs, target a 40% Google Services margin, and buy back stock aggressively.
Capricorn Energy CNE
NewMed's all-share bid for Capricorn hands shareholders a 42% discount and a self-serving board deal; a cash-return plus Egypt-focused optimisation path unlocks 400p/share instead.
Multiple (Wix, Salesforce, Splunk, Vertiv) WIX / CRM / SPLK / VRT
Four high-quality TMT names (Wix, Salesforce, Splunk, Vertiv) trade at multi-year-low valuations; closing the margin gap to peers as the market shifts from growth to profitability unlocks substantial FCF/share upside.
The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney's DTC pivot is working, but spinning ESPN, fully owning Hulu, cutting costs, and refreshing the board will unlock the next leg of value.
Capricorn Energy PLC CNE
Capricorn's board must withdraw its Tullow merger recommendation — a nil-premium takeover that hands Capricorn's cash to junk-rated creditors while standalone value of 330p offers 67% upside.
LivePerson, Inc. LPSN
Founder-CEO Rob LoCascio's unchecked power has produced repeated missed commitments and a 70% stock decline from peak
LivePerson, Inc. LPSN
Founder-CEO LoCascio has lowest Glassdoor approval among peers; toxic culture rewards loyalty over performance
McDonald's Corporation MCD
McDonald's board broke a 10-year promise to end gestation crates; replace Penrose and Lenny with two ESG experts to fix systemic governance and sustainability failures.
US Foods Holding Corp. USFD
Sachem Head owns 8.7% of US Foods and is running a proxy fight to install five directors who can close the Sysco margin gap and deliver ~100% upside.
Netflix NFLX
Ad-tier pivot makes subscriber growth, margins, and capital intensity unpredictable
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMHC
Veritas's $21/share buyout of Houghton Mifflin steals the company for 7.6x 2024 UFCF; reject it and execute a standalone Dutch tender recap to reach ~$42 by 2024.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMHC
Veritas' $21 tender for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt steals value at 7.6x UFCF; a self-funded Dutch tender and standalone plan could deliver roughly $42 per share by 2024.
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman failed all 2016 and 2018 Investor Day EBITDA and share-price promises
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman underperformed the S&P 500 by 337% from IPO to Starboard's involvement
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman has broken every major Investor Day commitment since 2014 — fooled shareholders three times
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman returned just 80% since its 2005 IPO vs. 642-822% for peers, a ~562% deficit under CEO Peter Huntsman
Pershing Square Holdings (fund-level annual update; covers portfolio including Lowe's, Universal Music Group, Hilton, Chipotle, Restaurant Brands, Howard Hughes, Domino's, Netflix, PSTH) PSH
PSH delivered 26.9% NAV return in 2021 and 50.1% 3-yr CAGR, outperforming activist and equity hedge indices
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman has underperformed peers by 575% since IPO and missed three straight Investor Day targets; elect four Starboard nominees on the BLUE card to restore board accountability.
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Huntsman has underperformed proxy peers by 575% since its IPO
Netflix, Inc. NFLX
Market overreacted to weak subscriber guidance, creating an attractive entry point
Mercury Systems, Inc. MRCY
Rights Plan is not in the best interests of Mercury Systems shareholders
Huntsman Corporation HUN
A decade of missed EBITDA targets: 2014, 2016 and 2018 Investor Day aspirations all unmet
Huntsman Corporation HUN
Three consecutive Investor Days (2014, 2016, 2018) missed EBITDA targets by hundreds of millions
REIT sector (thematic)
REITs hedge inflation, but only short-lease high-margin sectors — residential, self-storage, warehouses — work; office and net lease are bond-like losers in a 6%+ CPI world.
Hokuetsu Corporation 3865
Hokuetsu's 13-year CEO resists change as its paper business declines; selling Daio Paper cross-holdings and pivoting to biomass power can quadruple market cap to ¥533.9bn.
N/A (asset-class advocacy)
Publicly traded REITs have outperformed private real estate by 165–590bps annually for 20 years, offer better liquidity, cheaper valuations vs. bonds, and superior inflation-era returns.
Canadian National Railway CNI
CN, once the best-run Class I railroad, is now the worst under CEO Ruest; abandon the KCS deal and install Jim Vena to restore operational excellence.
Box, Inc. BOX
Box has chronically lagged peers and entrenched itself via an unnecessary $500M KKR preferred financing; electing Starboard's minority slate restores stockholder accountability and unlocks long-term value.
Box, Inc. BOX
Box is a best-of-breed cloud content platform that has missed every revenue target since IPO; a reconstituted board can fix go-to-market execution and close a massive valuation gap to peers.
Box, Inc. BOX
Box's board issued $500m of KKR preferred to lock up >10% of the vote and entrench itself ahead of Starboard's proxy contest — Starboard demands the books and four new directors.