Contrarian Corpus

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Engine Capital 2024-10-16

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Engine, owning 7.1% of Dye & Durham, will run a board slate at the 2024 AGM, arguing a refreshed board can close the 8x-vs-18x EBITDA peer gap.

N2 V1 C1
Elliott Management 2024-10-15

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV

Southwest is the most compelling airline turnaround opportunity in two decades

N2 V3 C3
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.

N3 V2 C1
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.

N5 V4 C4
Starboard Value 2024-10-01

Salesforce, Inc. CRM

Salesforce has executed Starboard's 2022 thesis — margins up 1,000bps, stock +99% — but committing to Rule of 50 by FY2028 still unlocks $20+ FCF/share at ~14x.

N4 V3 C3
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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Starboard Value 2024-10-01

Salesforce, Inc. CRM

Salesforce's 2022 turnaround delivered +1,000bps margins and +99% stock; Starboard argues further cost discipline plus Agentforce growth can hit the Rule of 50 by FY2028 and $20+ FCF/share.

N4 V3 C3
Elliott Management 2024-09-26

Southwest Airlines LUV

Southwest management has destroyed more value through inaction than anyone in the industry

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Engine Capital 2024-09-25

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Engine urges Dye & Durham's board to hold its 2024 AGM in December per TSX rules, or face board changes over entrenchment, delay tactics, and CEO Proud's destructive M&A.

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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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Citron Research 2024-09-24

Multiple (portfolio update)

AGL short worked: $5 PT set when stock was $25, fell to target on unprofitable model

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Elliott Management 2024-09-24

Southwest Airlines LUV

Worst-performing management team in airlines has destroyed more value than any peer

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Elliott Management 2024-09-24

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV

Management and Board are entrenching via poison pill and defensive maneuvers instead of accepting accountability

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Engine Capital 2024-09-19

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Court dismissal of OneMove litigation removes any remaining excuse to delay the Special Meeting

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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.

N4 V2 C2
Elliott Management 2024-09-10

Southwest Airlines LUV

Southwest is the most compelling airline turnaround opportunity in two decades

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Starboard Value 2024-09-09

News Corporation NWSA

News Corp's dual-class structure entrenches a fractious Murdoch family with 14% economics but 41% of the vote; collapsing it would remove a governance discount already rejected by 90% of unaffiliated holders.

N3 V2 C1
Starboard Value 2024-09-09

News Corporation NWSA

Starboard urges News Corp shareholders to vote to collapse the dual-class structure that gives the Murdoch family 41% voting power on only 14% economic ownership.

N3 V2 C1
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.

N4 V3 C2
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.

N4 V3 C3
Engine Capital 2024-07-30

C&C Group plc CCR

C&C has lagged peers by 81% since its 2019 LSE listing under four CEOs and a board owning 0.05%; electing Engine's two nominees brings M&A and capital-allocation expertise.

N3 V2 C1
Muddy Waters 2024-07-23

Eurofins Scientific SE ERF

Eurofins' €556m 'excess cash' earned just 1.42% vs banks' quoted ~2.88%, echoing the NMC Health fraud tell; only radical disclosure on cash, entities, and Dr. Martin's real estate can clear it.

N4 V2 C2
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.

N4 V2 C2
Starboard Value 2024-07-15

Match Group, Inc. MTCH

Match owns Tinder and Hinge but trades at 8.5x FCF; fixing Tinder, lifting margins above 40%, and aggressive buybacks — or going private — closes a ~45% peer discount.

N4 V2 C2
Starboard Value 2024-07-15

Match Group, Inc. MTCH

Match owns Tinder and Hinge yet trades at <8.5x FCF; fixing Tinder, lifting margins above 40%, and aggressive buybacks — or a sale — can unlock substantial upside.

N4 V2 C3
Elliott Management 2024-07-08

Southwest Airlines LUV

Eighth guidance cut in 18 months proves leadership cannot deliver

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Muddy Waters 2024-07-03

Eurofins Scientific SE ERF

Eurofins' 800+ immaterial subsidiaries and 18 auditors enable sham sales and cash double-counting; new evidence, including a factoring denial contradicted by a former BU head, argues the financials cannot be trusted.

N4 V2 C2
Starboard Value 2024-06-25

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk's Board tolerated years of underperformance and misleading billings disclosures; accountability, transparency, and a 1,000+ bps margin improvement can restore a best-in-class software franchise.

N4 V3 C3
Starboard Value 2024-06-25

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk is a high-quality monopoly hobbled by board complacency and misleading billings disclosures; transparency, accountability, and a 1,000 bps margin fix unlock material upside.

N4 V3 C3
Muddy Waters 2024-06-24

Eurofins Scientific SE ERF

Muddy Waters is short Eurofins: controlling shareholder Dr. Gilles Martin has siphoned capital via above-market real-estate leasebacks for 20 years, and the financials appear engineered to overstate revenue, profits, and cash.

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Starboard Value 2024-06-17

Autodesk, Inc. ADSK

Autodesk's Board misled shareholders on free cash flow and ran out the nomination clock; reopen the vote, refresh directors, and fix margins to close the peer gap.

N4 V2 C3
Carl Icahn 2024-06-10

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.

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Elliott Management 2024-06-10

Southwest Airlines LUV

Southwest lost 50%+ of market value in 3 years while peers thrived

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Elliott Management 2024-06-10

Southwest Airlines LUV

Southwest lost 50%+ of market value and EV is below the value of its aircraft alone

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Elliott Management 2024-06-10

Southwest Airlines LUV

Southwest's outdated strategy collapsed margins from best-in-class 21% to worst-in-class 8%

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Elliott Management 2024-06-10

Southwest Airlines LUV

Share price down >50% over 3 years; 2024 EBITDAR tracking ~50% below 2018 despite record industry revenues

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Muddy Waters 2024-06-03

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.

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Kerrisdale Capital 2024-06-01

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 C2
Muddy Waters 2024-05-29

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 C3
Elliott Management 2024-05-28

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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Bluebell Capital 2024-05-20

BP p.l.c. BP

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Engine Capital 2024-05-18

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 C1
Bluebell Capital 2024-05-13

BP plc BP

Bluebell escalates to BP's Senior Independent Director, arguing that Dame Amanda Blanc's refusal to meet breaches her governance duty and undermines her independence.

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Engine Capital 2024-05-07

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 C1
Bluebell Capital 2024-05-07

BP plc BP

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Carl Icahn 2024-05-06

Crown Castle Inc. CCI

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Bluebell Capital 2024-05-01

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.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-04-30

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 C1
Ancora 2024-04-27

Norfolk Southern NSC

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO publicly endorses Ancora's Norfolk Southern proxy fight, citing Cliffs' own 2014 board-overhaul win as proof that disciplined activism creates durable value.

N2 V2 C1
Engine Capital 2024-04-25

Dye & Durham Limited DND

Engine wants Dye & Durham's board to abandon its arbitrary C$1bn EBITDA target, stop overpaying for acquisitions, and refocus on ROIC after 62% three-year shareholder losses.

N3 V2 C1
Oasis Management 2024-04-25

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 C4
Palliser Capital 2024-04-24

Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. 9009.T

Palliser, a 1.6% holder, asks Keisei shareholders to vote on an advisory resolution forcing the board to publish a capital allocation plan and cut its OLC cross-holding below 15% by March 2026.

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Bluebell Capital 2024-04-23

BP p.l.c. BP

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Ancora 2024-04-22

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 C3
Land & Buildings 2024-04-18

National Health Investors, Inc. NHI

NHI is an undervalued senior-housing REIT whose conflicted, interlocked board threatens to give away the upcoming NHC lease renewal — vote AGAINST Webb and Swafford to force change.

N4 V2 C2
Bluebell Capital 2024-04-18

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 C1
Engine Capital 2024-04-17

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.

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