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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
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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
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The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney has underperformed its peers across every recent time period under the incumbent board; elect Trian's Peltz and Rasulo to restore focus, accountability, and shareholder alignment.
N3
V3
C3
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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.
N5
V4
C4
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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.
N5
V4
C4
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The Walt Disney Company DIS
Disney squandered a winning hand through a weak, unfocused Board; electing Peltz and Rasulo brings the shareholder mindset needed to reverse years of TSR underperformance.
N3
V3
C3
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Date
Fund
Target
Thesis
Scores
Jul 23, 2024
Muddy Waters
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
Jul 23, 2024
Bluebell Capital
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
Jul 08, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines Co.
LUV
Southwest's board entrenched itself with a poison pill instead of fixing chronic underperformance; Elliott demands CEO Bob Jordan out, the board reconstituted, and an external-led turnaround.
N3
V2
Jul 03, 2024
Muddy Waters
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
Jul 01, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc.
FND
Spruce Point argues Floor & Decor's leadership mirrors Linens 'N Things before bankruptcy, hiding $618M debt and misstating sales — shares face 40–60% downside to $40–60.
N4
V3
Jun 25, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Jun 25, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Jun 24, 2024
Muddy Waters
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.
N4
V2
Jun 17, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Jun 10, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines
LUV
Southwest's market cap has halved as a 36-year-insider CEO refuses to evolve; replacing the Board and CEO and modernizing the commercial model targets $49 — 77% upside.
N5
V4
Jun 10, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines
LUV
Southwest, once a profit leader, now posts the worst margins of any major U.S. airline under entrenched insiders Kelly and Jordan; new leadership, a refreshed board and a strategic review unlock 77% upside to $49.
N5
V4
Jun 10, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines
LUV
Southwest's 47-year profit streak has collapsed into worst-in-class margins under entrenched leadership; refreshing the board and hiring an external CEO unlocks 77% upside to $49.
N5
V4
Jun 10, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines
LUV
Elliott's $1.9bn, 11% stake argues Southwest's 50% decline reflects an insular 1971-era leadership culture; replacing the Chairman/CEO and refreshing the board can drive shares to $49 (+77%).
N4
V2
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 — 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 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 13, 2024
Bluebell Capital
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.
N2
V2
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 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
Land & Buildings
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
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 29, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney has underperformed its peers across every recent time period under the incumbent board; elect Trian's Peltz and Rasulo to restore focus, accountability, and shareholder alignment.
N3
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 05, 2024
Ancora
Norfolk Southern Corporation
NSC
Norfolk Southern's safety and operating failures — epitomized by the preventable East Palestine derailment — require replacing CEO Alan Shaw and reconstituting the Board with independent nominees.
N3
V2
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
Feb 01, 2024
Trian Partners
The Walt Disney Company
DIS
Disney squandered a winning hand through a weak, unfocused Board; electing Peltz and Rasulo brings the shareholder mindset needed to reverse years of TSR underperformance.
N3
V3
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
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 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
Jan 14, 2024
Scorpion Capital
TransMedics
TMDX
Scorpion petitions the FDA to suspend TransMedics' OCS Liver approval, citing pervasive off-label use, necrotic-organ device failures, and an alleged systematic cover-up of safety issues from regulators.
N4
V1
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
Nov 30, 2023
Muddy Waters
CPI Property Group
CPIPGR
Follow-up to Muddy Waters' Part 1 report: a list of pointed questions challenging CPI Property Group to explain self-dealing transactions through which controlling shareholder Radovan Vitek is allegedly asset-stripping the company.
N3
V1
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