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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.
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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.
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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.
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Box, Inc. BOX
Box has underperformed cloud peers for years despite engagement, and the Board just cut a dilutive financing to 'buy the vote' — Starboard nominates four directors to force real transformation.
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Box, Inc. BOX
After a failed 2020 settlement, Starboard will nominate directors at Box's 2021 Annual Meeting, citing missed growth targets and a $500M convertible preferred it calls a 'buy the vote' scheme.
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V2
C1
Dell Technologies (Class V / DVMT tracking stock) DVMT
Dell's $109 buyout of the DVMT tracker is really $90 — a 42% discount engineered to transfer $11bn from public holders to Michael Dell and Silver Lake. Vote no.
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Xerox Corporation XRX
Xerox's CEO is handing 50.1% control to Fuji 'without spending a penny' for ~$28/share; vote down the deal and replace the board to unlock $54-$64 standalone.
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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. MLNX
Mellanox's long-tenured board has presided over chronic underperformance and heavy insider selling; Starboard's 10.6% stake is launching a proxy fight to replace a majority of directors.
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C1
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. TYPE
Monotype's three-year acquisition spree (Olapic, Swyft) destroyed $500M+ of value and halved EBITDA margins; Starboard demands four new directors to refocus on the core font franchise.
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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. MLNX
Mellanox insiders have sold $130M of stock across 373 trades vs. one purchase since IPO — evidence the Board lacks confidence in its own plan and must be reconstituted.
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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. MLNX
Mellanox has industry-leading 70%+ gross margins but dead-last operating margins among fabless semis; disciplined cost cuts can close a multi-year peer gap and rerate the stock.
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Automatic Data Processing (ADP) ADP
ADP has delivered 203% TSR under CEO Rodriguez; Pershing Square owns just 2% of common stock and its nominees lack the HCM and technology experience to improve on this trajectory.
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Epiq Systems, Inc. EPIQ
Epiq's board has insulated management through chronic guidance misses, a failed Iris acquisition and governance entrenchment; electing Villere's alternate slate is the unique opportunity to unlock value.
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Yahoo! Inc. YHOO
Three years of failed turnaround have collapsed Yahoo's Core Business; Starboard demands a competitive sale process and leadership change, or it will launch an election contest.
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Yahoo! Inc. YHOO
Yahoo should scrap the Aabaco spin-off and instead sell the Core Business outright, returning cash to shareholders and keeping Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes in the remaining entity.
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Yahoo! Inc. YHOO
Yahoo's Core Business is collapsing because of $550M of self-inflicted cost bloat; cutting costs and replacing the Microsoft search deal can restore profitability without touching Alibaba.
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Fund
Target
Thesis
Scores
Oct 19, 2022
Starboard Value
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.
N4
V3
May 09, 2022
Starboard Value
LivePerson, Inc.
LPSN
Starboard owns 9.7% of LivePerson and is running a proxy fight to reconstitute the board and unseat founder-CEO Rob LoCascio, arguing toxic culture and weak governance have driven chronic underperformance.
N4
V2
May 09, 2022
Starboard Value
LivePerson, Inc.
LPSN
LivePerson's founder-CEO and entrenched Board have destroyed value through strategy drift and toxic culture; Starboard's proxy slate will reconstitute the Board and refocus the company.
N4
V3
May 03, 2022
Scorpion Capital
IonQ Inc.
IONQ
IonQ's 32-qubit 'world's most powerful quantum computer' is a Nikola-style hoax; its only real machine can't reliably add 1+1, and revenue stems from sham related-party deals.
N4
V2
Feb 16, 2022
Spruce Point Capital
C3.ai, Inc.
AI
C3.ai is a serially rebranded, money-losing AI story-stock propped up by an unraveling Baker Hughes JV and aggressive accounting; Spruce Point sees 40-50% downside to $12.85-$15.40.
N5
V3
Feb 03, 2022
Grizzly Research
Playtika Holding Corp.
PLTK
PLTK is a Chinese-insider piggy bank dumped on US public investors — debt-financed pre-IPO cash-out, addictive gambling-akin games facing regulators, and hidden share pledges imply ~45% downside.
N4
V3
Jan 20, 2022
Spruce Point Capital
TaskUs, Inc.
TASK
TaskUs is a Blackstone-promoted BPO with embellished disclosures, Satyam-linked accounting tics, and eroding Facebook unit economics; fair value is 25-50% below spot, or $18-$27.
N4
V3
Dec 09, 2021
Spruce Point Capital
Nuvei Corp
NVEI
Nuvei is a thrice-rebranded payments roll-up run by executives tied to Ponzi schemes, fraud and adult-industry operators; peer-multiple re-rating implies 40-60% downside to $39-$58.
N5
V4
Nov 18, 2021
White Diamond Research
Focus Universal Inc.
FCUV
Argus sees Focus Universal's patented IoT platform, Hydrofarm channel, and smart-home pipeline driving revenue from $1.7M to $150M by 2023, supporting a $15 fair-value vs ~$8.83 price.
N1
V2
Sep 29, 2021
Spruce Point Capital
Lightspeed Commerce, Inc.
LSPD
Lightspeed is a cash-burning POS roll-up that inflated its pre-IPO customer count by 85%, hides organic decline behind acquisitions, and should re-rate 60–80% lower to $22.50–$47 as Shopify, Square, Adobe and Amazon crowd it out.
N4
V3
Sep 27, 2021
White Diamond Research
Atomera Inc.
ATOM
Atomera's MST IP-licensing model is on the cusp of first commercial customer ramps; probability-weighted fab adoption scenarios support a $28 price target with moonshot upside to $146.
N2
V2
Aug 16, 2021
Starboard Value
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.
N4
V2
Aug 06, 2021
Starboard 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.
N4
V3
May 20, 2021
Starboard Value
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.
N3
V1
May 10, 2021
Starboard Value
Box, Inc.
BOX
Box has underperformed cloud peers for years despite engagement, and the Board just cut a dilutive financing to 'buy the vote' — Starboard nominates four directors to force real transformation.
N3
V1
May 03, 2021
Starboard Value
Box, Inc.
BOX
After a failed 2020 settlement, Starboard will nominate directors at Box's 2021 Annual Meeting, citing missed growth targets and a $500M convertible preferred it calls a 'buy the vote' scheme.
N3
V2
Apr 08, 2021
Spruce Point Capital
Porch Group Inc
PRCH
Porch is 'Active Network 2.0' run by the same CEO — a money-losing lead-gen business dressed as SaaS, with barter accounting and hidden debt implying 50%-70% downside to $5-$8.
N4
V3
Mar 08, 2021
Wolfpack Research
Skillz, Inc.
SKLZ
Skillz's SPAC-era growth story is collapsing — its top three games (88% of revenue) are in freefall while management touts fake NFL and Buck Hunter 'partnerships' to mask the miss.
N4
V2
Jan 07, 2021
Spruce Point Capital
Magnite, Inc.
MGNI
Magnite is a hype-fueled ad-tech merger masking Telaria's deteriorating CTV business with dubious management and suspect accounting; 25%-50% downside to $14.75-$20.
N4
V4
May 13, 2020
Spruce Point Capital
Forescout Technologies
FSCT
Advent overpaid $33/share for Forescout — management buried weaker forecasts and Q1 sales fell 24%; renegotiating 35-50% lower or paying the $112M break fee both beat closing.
N4
V3
Apr 28, 2020
TCI Fund
Wirecard AG
WDI
KPMG's failed audit of Wirecard's EUR 1bn trustee cash and TPA revenues creates a legal duty for the supervisory board to remove the CEO immediately.
N5
V2
Feb 06, 2020
Spruce Point Capital
Dropbox, Inc.
DBX
Dropbox is a decelerating, commoditized storage business whose reported FCF is overstated ~2x; fair value is $6.60-$13, implying 25-60% downside from $17.60.
N4
V3
Oct 09, 2019
Spruce Point Capital
Monolithic Power Systems
MPWR
MPWR's Chinese tax filings show $262m missing revenue and near-zero inventory despite 90% production in China — accounting red flags point to 75-85% downside.
N5
V4
Sep 25, 2019
Wolfpack Research
SMART Global Holdings, Inc.
SGH
SMART Global Holdings' 62%-of-revenue Brazil business depended on a PPB tax subsidy the WTO struck down; without it margins collapse, and self-dealing M&A signals management already knows.
N4
V2
May 30, 2019
Grizzly Research
Intelligent Systems Corp
INS
Grizzly argues INS's sudden 2018 revenue surge is a round-trip scheme via undisclosed related-party shells in India run by employees; fair value is ~$5, 85% below $34.
N4
V2
May 23, 2019
Spruce Point Capital
Verint Systems, Inc.
VRNT
Verint's reported 8% growth is a mirage of M&A, FX and ASC 606 tailwinds masking negative organic growth; rerate to BPO peer multiples for 60-70% downside to $17-25.
N4
V3
Jan 23, 2019
Spruce Point Capital
Amdocs Limited
DOX
Spruce Point sees 25-50% downside in Amdocs (DOX): a Guernsey-domiciled telecom-IT vendor whose steady margins, opaque insider selling via Pines Quest, and dot-com-era accounting tricks signal $30-$45 per share.
N4
V3
Nov 20, 2018
Elliott Management
Mitek Systems, Inc.
MITK
Mitek's board is entrenching against ASG's $10 cash bid (51% premium) despite a declining core business, departed leadership, and a chairman dumping his own stock below the offer price.
N4
V1
Nov 15, 2018
Carl Icahn
Dell Technologies (Class V / DVMT tracking stock)
DVMT
Dell's $109 buyout of the DVMT tracker is really $90 — a 42% discount engineered to transfer $11bn from public holders to Michael Dell and Silver Lake. Vote no.
N4
V3
Aug 21, 2018
Citron Research
NVIDIA Corporation
NVDA
NVDA, up 600% since 2016, faces in-house silicon from every mega-customer, collapsing crypto and autonomous narratives, and a benchmark-less Turing launch — shares revert to $200.
N4
V2
Jul 19, 2018
Spruce Point Capital
2U, Inc.
TWOU
2U's one-size-fits-all OPM model is being disrupted by lower-take-rate fee-for-service rivals; FOIA-documented program failures imply 30-50% downside to $47-$65/share.
N4
V3
Apr 17, 2018
Carl Icahn
Xerox Corporation
XRX
Xerox's CEO is handing 50.1% control to Fuji 'without spending a penny' for ~$28/share; vote down the deal and replace the board to unlock $54-$64 standalone.
N5
V3
Apr 04, 2018
Spruce Point Capital
Globant SA
GLOB
Globant is a poorly organized digital-IT roll-up using accounting games and Luxembourg disclosure loopholes to mask decelerating organic growth; shares warrant 40-50% downside to $24.50-$29.50.
N4
V3
Apr 02, 2018
Carl Icahn
Commvault Systems, Inc.
CVLT
Commvault is a product-great but company-broken data management software leader; Elliott (10.3%) demands an operational review, four new directors, and a capital-return program to close a deep valuation discount.
N4
V2
Apr 02, 2018
Elliott Management
Commvault Systems, Inc.
CVLT
Commvault, a product-respected software leader, trades at half the peer multiple because of 1,200bps of margin collapse and 20-year stale governance; a board refresh, operational review and capital return will close the gap.
N4
V2
Mar 07, 2018
Starboard Value
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
MLNX
Mellanox's long-tenured board has presided over chronic underperformance and heavy insider selling; Starboard's 10.6% stake is launching a proxy fight to replace a majority of directors.
N3
V2
Feb 13, 2018
Starboard Value
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.
TYPE
Monotype's three-year acquisition spree (Olapic, Swyft) destroyed $500M+ of value and halved EBITDA margins; Starboard demands four new directors to refocus on the core font franchise.
N4
V3
Feb 08, 2018
Muddy Waters
IQE plc
IQE
Muddy Waters is short IQE: the compound-semi maker inflated 2015/2016 net income by 58.5%/25.4% via transactions with its Cardiff University JV — an alter ego, not an arm's-length partner.
N4
V2
Feb 05, 2018
Starboard Value
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
MLNX
Mellanox insiders have sold $130M of stock across 373 trades vs. one purchase since IPO — evidence the Board lacks confidence in its own plan and must be reconstituted.
N4
V3
Jan 18, 2018
Carl Icahn
Xerox Corporation
XRX
Xerox is languishing under CEO Jacobson and old-guard directors; Icahn is nominating four new directors and demands CEO replacement plus renegotiation of the opaque Fuji joint venture.
N4
V2
Jan 08, 2018
Starboard Value
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
MLNX
Mellanox has industry-leading 70%+ gross margins but dead-last operating margins among fabless semis; disciplined cost cuts can close a multi-year peer gap and rerate the stock.
N4
V3
Sep 01, 2017
Trian Partners
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
ADP
ADP has delivered 203% TSR under CEO Rodriguez; Pershing Square owns just 2% of common stock and its nominees lack the HCM and technology experience to improve on this trajectory.
N4
V3
Aug 17, 2017
Pershing Square
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
ADP
ADP is a sleeping giant earning 19% Employer Services margins versus peers' 35-40% potential; electing Pershing's nominees catalyzes a transformation worth 100%+ in under four years.
N5
V4
Jun 01, 2017
Citron Research
BlackBerry
BBRY
Like NVDA's re-rating from graphics chips to AI, BlackBerry's QNX-led pivot to autonomous driving and IoT supports a $20 target — or a Mobileye-style buyout at a premium.
N4
V2
Jan 24, 2017
Ancora
Edgewater Technology, Inc.
EDGW
Edgewater's entrenched legacy board has overpaid two underperforming executives for 14 years; replacing four directors with Ancora's slate unlocks a turnaround in this sub-scale IT consultant.
N4
V3
Nov 28, 2016
Elliott Management
Cognizant Technology Solutions
CTSH
Cognizant's two-decade-old 19-20% margin policy and absent capital return have cratered its multiple; lifting margins to 23% plus a $2.5bn buyback and 75% FCF payout unlocks $80-$90/share, 50-69% upside.
N4
V3
Oct 05, 2016
Elliott Management
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
005930.KS
Samsung Electronics trades 34-68% below tech peers; demerging into Holdco/Opco, paying a KRW30tn special dividend and listing Opco on NASDAQ closes the gap while keeping Lee family control.
N4
V3
Apr 06, 2016
Marcato
Epiq Systems, Inc.
EPIQ
Epiq's board has insulated management through chronic guidance misses, a failed Iris acquisition and governance entrenchment; electing Villere's alternate slate is the unique opportunity to unlock value.
N4
V3
Mar 24, 2016
Starboard Value
Yahoo! Inc.
YHOO
Yahoo's board has failed for years on operations, capital allocation, and governance; replace it with Starboard's nine nominees to run a credible Core Business sale and unlock value.
N3
V2
Jan 06, 2016
Starboard Value
Yahoo! Inc.
YHOO
Three years of failed turnaround have collapsed Yahoo's Core Business; Starboard demands a competitive sale process and leadership change, or it will launch an election contest.
N4
V2
Dec 01, 2015
SpringOwl
Yahoo! Inc.
YHOO
Yahoo's Core is mismanaged but fixable — replace Mayer with an operator CEO, cut headcount two-thirds, bring Liberty in as a partner, and shares triple from $35 to $113.
N4
V3
Nov 19, 2015
Starboard Value
Yahoo! Inc.
YHOO
Yahoo should scrap the Aabaco spin-off and instead sell the Core Business outright, returning cash to shareholders and keeping Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes in the remaining entity.
N4
V2
Aug 10, 2015
Starboard Value
Yahoo! Inc.
YHOO
Yahoo's Core Business is collapsing because of $550M of self-inflicted cost bloat; cutting costs and replacing the Microsoft search deal can restore profitability without touching Alibaba.
N4
V2
Apr 22, 2015
Engaged Capital
Rovi Corporation
ROVI
Rovi's entrenched board destroyed a decade of shareholder value while promising 'double-digit growth next year' every year; Engaged's nominees Lockwood and Rau bring operating credibility the incumbents lack.
N4
V3
Jul 06, 2014
Muddy Waters
NQ Mobile
NQ
NQ's July 3 disclosures vindicate the fraud thesis: the audit chair resigned, PwC will never sign off, and insiders front-ran the news by dumping stock.
N4
V2
Jun 04, 2014
Muddy Waters
NQ Mobile
NQ
NQ's own investigation committee confirmed widespread data tampering — the same pattern that preceded Sino-Forest's collapse — so Muddy Waters maintains its fraud rating.
N3
V2
May 20, 2014
Spruce Point Capital
iRobot Corp
IRBT
IRBT is a narrow consumer-vacuum company riding a robotics bubble; aggressive accounting, insider selling and a decaying moat point to $20-$25, or 25-40% downside.
N4
V3
Apr 13, 2014
Muddy Waters
NQ Mobile
NQ
NQ Mobile's surprise Q4 loss and negative cash flow under PwC's tougher audit confirm Muddy Waters' fraud thesis: revenue, acquisitions, and cash balances are all fabricated.
N4
V2
Apr 01, 2014
Carl Icahn
eBay
EBAY
13D Monitor backs Icahn's eBay campaign: the board's Silicon-Valley-insulated directors can't even recognize their conflicts, so Icahn needs two seats and a PayPal spin to fix it.
N3
V2
Mar 11, 2014
Elliott Management
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
RVBD
Riverbed's core WAN market is stagnant and the OPNET deal has disappointed; Elliott's $21 all-cash offer prices above peer and precedent-deal multiples, so the board should engage.
N3
V3