251 documents showing 241–251
Date
Fund
Target
Thesis
Scores
May 27, 2009
Pershing Square
General Growth Properties
GGWPQ
GGP filed for liquidity, not insolvency; with assets materially exceeding liabilities, a seven-year debt extension would deliver 10x–25x upside on equity trading at $1.19.
N5
V3
May 11, 2009
Pershing Square
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.
N4
V3
Nov 19, 2008
Pershing Square
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.
N5
V3
Oct 29, 2008
Pershing Square
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.
N5
V3
May 21, 2008
Pershing Square
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.
N5
V3
Nov 09, 2006
Pershing Square
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.
N4
V3
Feb 01, 2006
Carl Icahn
Time Warner Inc.
TWX
Time Warner has underperformed its peer index by 51% under Parsons; splitting into four SpinCos (AOL, Content, Publishing, Cable) plus a $20bn buyback unlocks $30-45bn — a 35-54% premium.
N5
V4
Jan 18, 2006
Pershing Square
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.
N5
V3
Nov 15, 2005
Pershing Square
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.
N5
V3
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Oasis Management
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.
N5
V4
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Starboard Value
Fluor Corporation
FLR
Fluor's $4bn NuScale stake masks a transformed EPCM core trading at just 2.8x EBITDA; separating NuScale unlocks a re-rating to peer 6-13x multiples.
N4
V4