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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
⚑
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
⌂
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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Date
Fund
Target
Thesis
Scores
Sep 10, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines Co.
LUV
Southwest is the most compelling airline turnaround in two decades; replacing the entrenched CEO and Board with Elliott's ten nominees restores efficiency, product, and reliability.
N3
V4
Sep 09, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Sep 09, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Aug 26, 2024
Elliott Management
Southwest Airlines Co.
LUV
Southwest has destroyed 50%+ of shareholder value under Kelly and Jordan; replacing them and seating Elliott's 10 independent nominees plus a new board committee is required to restore best-in-class performance.
N4
V2
Aug 15, 2024
Kerrisdale Capital
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
Aug 08, 2024
Spruce Point Capital
Zebra Technologies Corp.
ZBRA
Zebra's hardware growth is stalling, its accounting and governance are riddled with red flags, and a sum-of-parts valuation implies 65-80% downside to $63-$110 per share.
N4
V3
Aug 06, 2024
Starboard Value
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.
N4
V3
Aug 01, 2024
Starboard Value
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
Jul 30, 2024
Engine Capital
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
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 15, 2024
Starboard Value
Match Group, Inc.
MTCH
Match owns Tinder and Hinge yet trades at <8.5x FCF; fix Tinder, lift margins above 40%, buy back aggressively — or take the company private — to close a ~45% peer discount.
N4
V2
Jul 15, 2024
Starboard Value
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
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, hailed as 'Japan's ASML,' is a $23B accounting fraud — a textbook inventory scheme masking a defective EUV tool destined for a 65-70% write-down reminiscent of Olympus and Toshiba.
N5
V2
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 28, 2024
Elliott Management
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.
N4
V3
May 20, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BP p.l.c.
BP
response filing
N1
V1
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 07, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BP plc
BP
response filing
N1
V2
May 06, 2024
Carl Icahn
Crown Castle Inc.
CCI
regulatory filing
N1
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 27, 2024
Ancora
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
Apr 25, 2024
Engine Capital
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
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 24, 2024
Palliser Capital
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.
N4
V2
Apr 23, 2024
White Diamond Research
authID Inc.
AUID
authID is a $50M+ micro-cap at 300x sales whose selfie second-factor product a former top executive says has no product-market fit — $1 price target.
N3
V2
Apr 23, 2024
Bluebell Capital
BP p.l.c.
BP
other
N1
V1
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
Citron Research
Edgio, Inc.
EGIO
Edgio trades at 0.13x sales despite serving Microsoft, Amazon, and Verizon; a takeout or rerating to peer CDN multiples implies $65-$200 per share — 6-10x upside.
N3
V2
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