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"Spruce Point believes that BOOT shareholders should be outraged that CEO Conroy was quietly elected to the Board of Sally Beauty Holdings (NYSE: SBH), which is a struggling retailer."
"Spruce Point believes it is time for significant change at U.S. Concrete Inc (Nasdaq: USCR). Based on our research, we are calling for the immediate resignation of its CEO Sandbrook."
"I think as the personalized learning products, those would be factored a little bit more towards the tail end of 3 to 5 years plus. — Hardeep Gulati, CEO, September 2023 Investor Day"
"“...our conventional portfolio generate[s] the cash needed to fund the unconventional growth that we have in the Bakken and the Utica.” — John Hess, Chairman & CEO Hess, January 2013"
"Brian Coffman, Elliott nominee for Phillips 66's (NYSE: PSX) Board and former CEO of Motiva Enterprises, doesn't buy the argument that Phillips' refining assets are "old and tired.""
"“Capital allocation is a CEO’s most important job” — The Outsiders; “Decentralized organizations release entrepreneurial energy and keep both costs and ‘rancor down” — The Outsiders"
"…on the monetization of Patch… I would just say when we started the product in general, we started it without monetization in mind… — CEO Tim Armstrong, 2Q10 conference call, 8/4/10"
"Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) stock has underperformed its peers for a decade. Now, the CEO is talking down the value of his own company's shares, saying they are already fully valued..."
"Unlike the incumbents, the proposed CEO and COO’s compensation structure will minimize salary, put the vast majority of compensation at risk and tie management’s payout to results."
"With the exception of the current and former CEOs, the Board lacks significant, recent experience with water and wastewater utilities — Aqua NJ Audit by SAGE Management Consultants"
""And so what I think you can expect from us is that continued expansion every quarter, every two quarters, the launch of new major categories." — CEO Dudum on Q3 2021 Earnings Call"
"“There is, some that are bigger, some that are smaller. There’s some that we never think about and there some that we think about every other day.” — Bryant Riley, Chairman and CEO"
"Gregg Saretsky brings significant leadership experience and industry knowledge with a nearly 40-year career in aviation, including having served as CEO of WestJet for eight years."
"Phillips 66's Board is "proud" of management and have compensated the current CEO generously while also anointing him Chairman, allowing him to consolidate control of the Company."
"Huntsman has the HIGHEST CEO base salary despite being one of the SMALLEST companies in the Proxy Peer set and failing to achieve its 2014, 2016, and 2018 Investor Day commitments"
"Phillips 66's Board is "proud" of management and have compensated the current CEO generously while also anointing him Chairman, allowing him to consolidate control of the Company."
"“...there’s an opportunity for Carrabba’s clearly...more to come on development, but Carrabba’s certainly earned the right to more expansion.” — Dave Deno, CEO, 2Q23 Earnings Call"
"Mr. Austrian knew the Company needed a superior executive with strong retail and BSD experience, yet the search committee on which he sat chose him to be CEO after only 6 months."
"Besides the CEO Peter Chapman and CFO, no other C-level officers are even listed, underscoring the small size of the executive team and the pivotal role that Monroe and Kim play."
"We have little doubt that the next CEO of Arconic will also be astonished at the waste and will in short order rationalize tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary expenditures"
"In previous instances at Canadian Pacific, CSX and Union Pacific, attempts to blend a non-PSR model with PSR led to separation with the COO and subsequent replacement of the CEO."
"While the CEO talks up defense contracts as “huge”, we remind investors that gov't contracts are often margin constrained and offered through highly competitive tender processes."
"Mettler has excessive amounts of add-backs to free cash flow. In our view, cumulative FCF has been inflated by $347m with 80% of it coming after CEO Filliol took control in 2008."
""We're not running the company for the OR, we're running the company for EPS growth, operating income, free cash flow" — Jean-Jacques Ruest, CEO, Q2 2021 earnings conference call"
"“Element i+ is now shipping the full commercial quantities this quarter and we are working to quickly expand Element i+'s very exciting menu.” — CEO Wilson, Q2 2020 Earnings Call"
"Since December 2013, with the exception of announcing CEO Clarence Otis’ “retirement”, essentially every major announcement Darden has made resulted in a decline in stock price."
"With respect to irrefutable numbers, Norfolk Southern’s operating ratio has consistently lagged that of CSX and the Class I average before and after Mr. Shaw’s promotion to CEO."
"Since December 2013, with the exception of announcing CEO Clarence Otis’ “retirement”, essentially every major announcement Darden has made resulted in a decline in stock price."
"CEO Mr. Fink may rightfully bask in the memories and celebrate his past successes, but shareholders, given the underwhelming results of the last fifteen years, must look forward"
"The CEO is “confident” that TASK can improve margins to exceed 25% while a former executive interviewed by Spruce Point expressed doubt absent a real significant differentiator."
"I think we’re getting better at both identifying and building a pipeline of future tenancy, and the strategy is playing out exactly as we thought. — CEO Jay Brown, February 2020"
""[We're] having less volatility than refining peers when refining margins flex to the downside, so we get the best of both worlds." — Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier, March 6, 2025"
"「極秘の扱いではありませんが、訊くべき人に訊けば、話してもらえます。私が知っているある人は、レーザーテックで〇〇〇を務めており、問題について〇〇〇に話しました。3ヶ月しか保たない光源は実質的に2ヶ月しか使えないし、交換に時間もお金もすごくかかる、そう認めました」 — 半導体製造装置企業の上席幹部として長年の経験を持ち、レーザーテックのCEOに親しい人物"
""[We're] having less volatility than refining peers when refining margins flex to the downside, so we get the best of both worlds." — Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier, March 6, 2025"
"“If they didn’t have any [issues], he would happily talk about how things are going.” — Longtime, senior semicap equipment executive in Japan who is friendly with Lasertec’s CEO"
"“...parallel inspections of the same masks...just to make sure there are no defects.” — Longtime, senior semicap equipment executive in Japan who is friendly with Lasertec’s CEO"
"Brazenly, despite resorting to an elevated temperature, the CEO recently claimed in an interview to have solved the dendrites problem - without having to raise the temperature."
"Under his leadership as CEO, total shareholder returns have been abysmal, and Mr. Simmons has done nothing other than to reiterate that the Company is at “an inflection point.”"
"We note that Sequa has previously had a supply arrangement with Calgon Carbon, a Company where GCP's current CEO, Randy Dearth, has previously served as a Board member and CEO."
"Current pay limits lead to high leadership turnover, with Fannie averaging a new CEO every three years and Freddie every two years since conservatorship began in September 2008"
"Current pay limits lead to high leadership turnover, with Fannie averaging a new CEO every three years and Freddie every two years since conservatorship began in September 2008"
"Historically, the CEO has not been held to stringent financial performance. In FY 2020, only 25% of his short-term incentive compensation was linked to "fiscal responsibility"."
""It was obvious to open on the East coast and not anywhere else. The sky is blue, the people are nice. Can't be better, right?" — Oatly CEO Peterson, Vice Interview, March 2019"
"As you saw from the first quarter impact, we are not immune from COVID-19, especially since roughly half of our business is exposed to elective surgery. — CEO Lobo, May 5, 2020"
"CEO Cole appears to have “selectively disclosed” his work history. The companies that are omitted don’t appear to have succeeded, and at least one has been charged with fraud."
"A former employee revealed that former CEO Eric Schadt was aware that the company was billing insurance providers for tests without sufficient evidence to support the charges."
"We’ve rarely experienced so many interviews with former employees who universally share such a negative opinion of their company’s CEO as we did with SKLZ and Andrew Paradise."
"Spruce Point cannot recommend investing in a company where the CEO makes headlines for large compensation while “flexing” his muscles. This suggests extreme managerial hubris."
"When asked about patent protections for FLAWLESS, the CEO boldly responded it has a “sizeable” patent portfolio. It didn't take much work to call this statement into question."
""We're just waiting for the FDA approval... that's not in our hands, it's in the government's hands. Once we get the FDA approval, we'll be launching posthaste." — PepsiCo CEO"
"We would like to see a CEO that balances the needs of customers, while at the same time generating acceptable returns for shareholders who capitalize the company's businesses"
""During the fourth quarter, we achieved our strategic priority targets for shareholder distributions and asset dispositions." — Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier, January 31, 2025"
"We[re] having less volatility than refining peers when refining margins flex to the downside, so we get the best of both worlds. — Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier, March 6, 2025"
""Either way, we're charging a small fraction of the serious ridiculously high 30% to 40% of commissions being charged by Zillow and Realtor.com to agents." — CoStar Group CEO"
"Concerning Mr. Weimann's question number 2.6.: Media Ventures has an agreement that enables them to buy advertisements from Ströer at a reduced price, etc. — Udo Müller (CEO)"
"What did CEO Jagdfeld know before entering into a second 10B5-1 program as dealer growth stopped, margins subsequently collapsed, and working capital and liquidity worsened?"
"Curtailment requests from ERCOT are rare, less than 3% of the time according to Marathon Digital's CEO (and confirmed in our conversations with other industry participants)."
"CEO Fayer’s biography has many open hole questions. First, it says he started Nuvei as Pivotal Payments in 2003. However, it fails to say what exactly he did prior to 2003."
"The rate limiter on [a new strategy] is the CEO. I don't have a lot of confidence he is the right person at this stage... The Street would be widely supportive of a change."
"“I think a good way for you to think about it is $1 of [new] revenue costs us about $1 of sales [and] implementation expense.” — Gary Butler, ADP Former CEO (February 2009)"