Pershing Square Holdings (fund-level annual review covering multiple portfolio companies: ADP, QSR, MDLZ, HHC, CMG, FNMA/FMCC, PAH, NKE, HLF, SPGI) PSH
The three reasons
- 1
Pershing Square has restructured to a smaller, investment-centric organization — 'returning to our roots'
- 2
PSH trades at a ~20% discount to NAV; tender + buyback + LSE listing should close the gap
- 3
Refreshed portfolio (ADP, NKE, CMG, QSR) plus reduced fees create asymmetric setup post-Valeant
Primary demands
- Close PSH's ~20% discount to NAV via $300m PSCM-affiliate tender offer plus expanded open-market buyback
- Remove PSH's 4.99% ownership cap at the April 2018 AGM to enable greater capital return flexibility
- Continue activist engagement at ADP to lift Employer Services growth from 2-4% to 7%+ and operating margins from ~19% to 35%+
- Recruit a world-class CEO at Chipotle to unlock digital, menu, delivery and international growth
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Notable slides (8)
Notes
Annual investor meeting deck — fund-level portfolio review rather than a single-target activist thesis. Best read as a post-Valeant 'reset' narrative ('Returning to Our Roots' on p.17) bundled with capsule updates on each portfolio name and the case for closing PSH's NAV discount. Each portfolio company gets a thesis page + share-price-since-inception annotated chart, a recurring template worth noting. The 2017 winners/losers attribution slides (p.12-13) and the 'Evolution of Pershing Square Organization' bar/line chart (p.18) are the most graphically interesting. Tone is unusually self-reflective for an Ackman deck ('Experience is making mistakes and learning from them', p.29). Document type judged 'full_deck' rather than 'conference_presentation' because it is a private investor meeting, not a Sohn-style external conference. Campaign phase = unknown (multi-name portfolio update); could arguably be tagged 'follow_up' for the ADP/CMG/HLF discussions but no single campaign dominates.