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Darden Restaurants DRI

Darden's Board rebuts Starboard's REIT, Specialty Restaurants spin, and refranchising proposals as financial engineering built on inflated multiples and ignored friction costs that would jeopardize the dividend and credit profile.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. DRI

Darden's Board destroyed value by selling Red Lobster for ~1x EBITDA against shareholder will; replacing 12 directors unlocks a real estate spin, cost-cut turnaround, and peer-catchup upside.

Sotheby's BID

Sotheby's sits on $1bn+ of excess capital while insiders own 0.8%; Third Point's slate brings aligned ownership to drive capital return, cost discipline, and higher ROE.

Sotheby's BID

Sotheby's Board has presided over a 42% EPS collapse despite global wealth tailwinds; electing Third Point's three nominees can restore owner perspective and more than double pro-forma EPS.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. DRI

Darden's rushed Red Lobster spin-off traps ~$850m of real estate value at a trough multiple; shareholders must force a Special Meeting to halt this irreversible mistake.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. DRI

Darden's rushed Red Lobster spin is the wrong deal at the wrong time — it traps ~$850M of real estate value and blocks a $1-2B REIT unlock; shareholders must call a Special Meeting to stop it.

PepsiCo, Inc. PEP

PepsiCo has chronically underperformed because its 'Power of One' holding-company structure suffocates Frito-Lay and Pepsi; separate them into two focused companies and the combined value will re-rate materially higher.

Olam International OLAM

Ten months after our initial short, Olam's FY13 results confirm the thesis: 1.8% ROA, S$800m cash burn, ossified board, no acknowledgement of the over-leverage problem.

Bob Evans Farms, Inc. BOBE

Bob Evans trades at a conglomerate discount; spinning BEF Foods, monetizing 482 owned restaurants via sale-leaseback, and tendering at $58 unlocks ~$78.50/share.

Office Depot, Inc. ODP

Office Depot's entrenched board has destroyed value for years; replace four incumbents with Starboard's retail-experienced nominees to lift operating margins from 0.9% to 7.3% — standalone or merged with OfficeMax.

PepsiCo, Inc. PEP

PepsiCo's snacks and beverages are structurally incompatible — Trian demands a Mondelez merger plus beverage spin (or a clean snacks/beverages separation), unlocking up to $175/share by 2015 vs. $85 today.

Procter & Gamble PG

P&G is a world-class franchise vastly under-earning under a distracted CEO McDonald; restoring 5% growth and 24% EBIT margins lifts EPS to $6 and shares 60% to $125.

Herbalife, Ltd. HLF

Herbalife is an illegal pyramid scheme: ~92% of distributor income comes from recruiting rather than retail, and the top 1% extracts 88% of rewards.

Olam International Ltd. OLAM

Olam's Q2 2013 results confirm Muddy Waters' Strong Sell thesis: debt is spiraling (9.5x EBITDA), cash is burning, and management's acquisitions and Gabon project reveal haphazard planning.

Herbalife Ltd. HLF

Herbalife is an illegal pyramid scheme masquerading as a nutrition company; its $4.8bn market cap rests on recruiting, not real retail demand, and the stock should go to zero.

Herbalife Ltd. HLF

Herbalife is an illegal pyramid scheme: distributors profit from recruiting not retail, the top 1% captures 88% of rewards, and the stock is ultimately worth zero.

Olam International OLAM

Olam's surprise $750m Temasek-backed debt raise — at an effective cost over 10% — validates Muddy Waters' thesis that the company is days from collapse; Strong Sell maintained.

Olam International OLAM

Olam's 45-page rebuttal ducks Muddy Waters' real points; we'll pay S&P to rate Olam's debt and prove the market underprices its accounting and acquisition risk.

Olam International Ltd. SGX:O32

Olam is an Enron-style agri trader whose aggressive non-cash accounting, off-the-rails CapEx binge, and 9.3x leverage mask a failing trading business — equity likely worthless, bonds 14-33¢.

Danone BN.PA

Danone is a world-class health-focused food company trading at trough multiples and a 1.5x P/E discount to Nestle; rerating to historic levels implies ~€78 vs €48, +62% upside by 2014.

ADT Corporation ADT

ADT is drastically under-levered post-Tyco spin; levering to 3.0x EBITDA and repurchasing ~30% of the float delivers ~44% upside to a $55 target.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group EDU

New Oriental is hiding an extensive franchising operation, filing fraudulent tax-exempt financials in Beijing and using a cosmetic VIE — expect a restatement and Deloitte to resign.

J.C. Penney Company, Inc. JCP

JCP has been chronically mismanaged for 20 years; new CEO Ron Johnson (ex-Target, ex-Apple Retail) with a dream team and a mall-within-a-mall remake can take the stock from $26 to $77-$125 by 2014.

Burger King Worldwide Holdings BKW

Justice pays $1.4bn to merge with 3G-owned Burger King and relist on NYSE, backing a proven operator to refranchise, turn around margins, and expand internationally.

Lowe's Companies, Inc. LOW

Lowe's is a cheap home-improvement duopolist whose 8% FCF yield funds a buyback worth ~40% of market cap — investors are paid to wait for the housing recovery.

Fortune Brands Home & Security FBHS

FBHS is an orphaned post-spin cyclical at trough housing demand; even with no recovery it's worth $14, and normalization delivers $18-$27/share — ~70% upside.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters GMCR

GMCR's $9 EPS bull case ignores a smaller TAM, falling K-cup attachment rates, a September 2012 patent cliff, and accounting shenanigans at fulfillment agent MBlock — realistic EPS is ~$3.50.

Family Dollar Stores FDO

Family Dollar runs a 37% EBIT/sqft productivity gap to Dollar General post-KKR; closing it via ops, a leveraged buyback, or sale unlocks ~$90/share (70% upside).

Target Corporation TGT

Target's insular board lacks CEO-level retail, credit-card, and real-estate expertise — replace four incumbents with Pershing's slate to close the 62-point performance gap versus Wal-Mart.

Target Corporation TGT

Target's land is mispriced inside a 5.8x retail multiple; a <20% IPO of 'TIP REIT' followed by a tax-free spin re-rates the real estate at REIT multiples and lifts the stock from $37 to $67 now, $80 by 2010.

Target Corporation TGT

Target's owned real estate is a $39bn hidden asset; a tax-free land-only REIT spin (TIP REIT) with a 75-year master lease unlocks ~$30/share and 74% upside.

Wendy's International WEN

Wendy's is fundamentally a franchise + real estate business trading at a peer-gap discount; the Triarc merger and OpCo turnaround unlock 75-85% upside to $49-$52.

Whole Foods Market, Inc. WFMI

Borders Group, Inc. BGP

Borders' high-quality Superstores franchise is obscured by money-losing Mall and International segments; rationalizing those while remodeling stores and buying back stock unlocks $36 vs. $21 today.

McDonald's Corporation MCD

McDonald's is fundamentally a franchise and real-estate royalty company hidden inside an underperforming restaurant operator; a 20% McOpCo IPO and segment financials force a sum-of-parts rerating to $46-$50/share.

McDonald's Corporation MCD

McDonald's is a hidden real-estate and franchise business trading as a restaurant operator; IPO'ing 65% of McOpCo and re-levering PropCo unlocks $45-50 per share, a 37-52% premium.

Kao Corporation 4452 JT

Kao's iconic cosmetics brands are underutilized by passive management; prioritizing international growth, hiring a global CMO, and refreshing the board unlock JPY10,000/share — a 76% upside.

Kao Corporation 4452.JP

Kao, a 'sleeping giant' of premium FMCG brands hamstrung by a management allergic to growth, should refocus globally and rebuild the board, unlocking 76-97% upside.