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Showing 1681–1740 of 2,092 matching "revenue"
quote ceo quote

"Pfizer management expects these transactions to contribute >$20.5 billion in revenue by 2030. — Pfizer Public Presentation"

Pfizer Inc. · PFE Starboard Value · p. 43
callout peer gap

"Based on our diligence, we believe Crown Castle can achieve a 40% capex revenue ROI on $600M of Fiber discretionary capex"

Crown Castle International · CCI Elliott Management · p. 51
callout ceo quote

"Given flat overall revenue growth, HH must be experiencing declining sales and losing market share outside of CTC stores."

Canadian Tire Corporation · CTC.A Spruce Point Capital · p. 48
callout villain critique

"The magnitude of this alleged pay discrepancy suggests that revenue on her channel could be overstated by over six times."

Joyy Inc. · YY Muddy Waters · p. 25
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point finds clear evidence that TASK's revenue per front line content security employee has been in steep decline."

TaskUs, Inc. · TASK Spruce Point Capital · p. 55
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point is always concerned when public companies become more opaque, especially when it comes to revenue reporting."

Rollins Inc. · ROL Spruce Point Capital · p. 67
callout other

"We conclude from our estimates that BEKE's revenues are significantly inflated, even at BEKE's reported commission rates."

KE Holdings · BEKE Muddy Waters · p. 10
callout other

"The worsening trends in reported “Grow” revenue are therefore driven by increasingly weak sales of software applications."

Lumen Technologies · LUMN Kerrisdale Capital · p. 8
callout villain critique

"This is in stark contrast to Ginkgo’s related party disclosure, which reports only $73K of foundry revenue from Synlogic."

Ginkgo Bioworks · DNA Scorpion Capital · p. 51
quote villain critique

"In fact, while he was CEO of Cognos, the Company delayed its 10-K/Q as the SEC reviewed its revenue recognition policies."

MSCI Inc. · MSCI Spruce Point Capital · p. 113
callout ceo quote

"In addition to revenue figures, FIGS management made several apparently false statements regarding key business metrics."

FIGS, Inc. · FIGS Spruce Point Capital · p. 31
callout demand list

"Deliver improved revenue growth and achieve best-in-class EBITDA margins of up to 60% to 70% in the medium to long-term."

Tessera Technologies Inc. · TSRA Starboard Value · p. 22
callout transition

"SREC revenue has declined in the first half of 2020 and is beginning to contribute a smaller percentage of total revenue"

Sunnova Energy International Inc. · NOVA Spruce Point Capital · p. 34
callout kpi overview

"Spruce Point doesn't believe that SMCI is a high-quality company and that investors should not chase its revenue growth."

Super Micro Computer, Inc. · SMCI Spruce Point Capital · p. 15
callout sop buildup

"None of these revenue streams or relationships appears significant enough to justify Publishing being 100% owned by TWX."

Time Warner Inc. · TWX Carl Icahn · p. 285
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point finds more evidence that Magnite is under revenue pressure, and is prone to over-promise and under-deliver."

Magnite, Inc. · MGNI Spruce Point Capital · p. 15
callout villain critique

"Leidos revenues have increased ($11+$7+$11) = $29m from the IMX acquisition in 2020 not by $23m as described in the 10-Q"

Leidos Holdings, Inc. · LDOS Spruce Point Capital · p. 58
callout villain critique

"But we are overall concerned that audit fees are not growing in line with revenues, and are in fact in a downward trend."

58.com Inc. · WUBA Grizzly Research · p. 14
callout ceo quote

"At the Q2 2019 call, a sell-side analyst also noticed the lower than projected reagent revenue per system (utilization)."

Accelerate Diagnostics · AXDX White Diamond Research · p. 22
quote villain critique

""Revenue increased by $217.3 million, or 106.5%, to $421.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020..." — Prospectus"

Oatly Group AB · OTLY Spruce Point Capital · p. 48
callout peer gap

"Wall Street research analysts expect Pfizer's revenue to decline by 3% (9% increase excluding COVID) from 2023 to 2030."

Pfizer Inc. · PFE Starboard Value · p. 38
callout villain critique

"We believe there is a clear pattern of misreporting of acquisition revenue contribution by Generac between 2019 - 2021."

Generac Holdings, Inc. · GNRC Spruce Point Capital · p. 56
callout peer gap

"Commvault is not executing against this paradigm and is delivering both exceedingly low margins and low revenue growth."

callout other

"These connections between performers and PUs further support our estimated that YY has fabricated ~90% of gift revenue."

Joyy Inc. · YY Muddy Waters · p. 22
callout other

"The provision was revised to a high of C$246.9 million, amounting to ~15% and ~23% of Wood E&I's gross and net revenue."

WSP Global Inc. · WSP Spruce Point Capital · p. 39
callout villain critique

"Samsara derives almost 30% less annualized license revenue from forward facing cameras compared to dual facing cameras."

Samsara Inc. · IOT Spruce Point Capital · p. 61
callout ceo quote

"We estimate that revenue per new store fell from $15.0 to $12.4 million ($178 to $172 per sqft.) between 2022 and 2023."

Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. · FND Spruce Point Capital · p. 29
callout section divider

"Be Wary of Chasing SMCI’s Revenue Growth Story As Many Signs Point To Failure And The CEO Dumps Record Amounts of Stock"

Super Micro Computer, Inc. · SMCI Spruce Point Capital · p. 9
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point finds this maneuver particularly aggressive and gives the Company no credit for its “revenue adjustments.”"

Verint Systems, Inc. · VRNT Spruce Point Capital · p. 81
callout peer gap

"Commvault is not executing against this paradigm and is delivering both exceedingly low margins and low revenue growth."

Commvault Systems, Inc. · CVLT Elliott Management · p. 7
callout villain critique

"Revenue is the only metric difficult to manipulate, and would reflect USCR's negative true organic volume growth rates."

U.S. Concrete Inc · USCR Spruce Point Capital · p. 21
callout ceo quote

"Yet again, this data point calls into question why Leidos implied that ~90% of the deal revenue would be international."

Leidos Holdings, Inc. · LDOS Spruce Point Capital · p. 28
callout ceo quote

"We think that within 6 months AXDX management will be forced to revise down reagent revenue expectations a second time."

Accelerate Diagnostics · AXDX White Diamond Research · p. 16
callout ceo quote

"Peloton's interim co-CEOs are telling the same story of a recurring, high-margin subscription revenue stream business."

Peloton Interactive · PTON Greenlight Capital · p. 28
callout villain critique

"Autodesk has spent $2.4 billion on acquisitions over the last five years, mostly for assets with little to no revenue."

Autodesk, Inc. · ADSK Starboard Value · p. 81
callout kpi overview

"Counter-cyclical elements in fee revenue mitigate the impact of severe market downturns and provide earnings stability"

callout villain critique

"Muddy Waters, LLC believes that DGW is the biggest fraud we have encountered so far in terms of revenue overstatement."

callout villain critique

"Bristol-Myers management seems to be expecting five unidentified products to generate average revenues of $1.4 billion"

Bristol-Myers Squibb · BMY Starboard Value · p. 124
callout villain critique

"The revenue trajectory for existing CAR-T therapies suggests it will be very challenging to achieve blockbuster status"

Bristol-Myers Squibb · BMY Starboard Value · p. 118
callout kpi overview

"Wall Street analysts expect Bristol-Myers to continue to grow revenue and leverage it into faster adjusted EPS growth."

Bristol-Myers Squibb · BMY Starboard Value · p. 158
callout kpi overview

"A significant improvement in cost management and modest revenue growth can drive nearly a 75% increase in EBIT by 2014"

Lazard Ltd · LAZ Trian Partners · p. 26
callout appendix methodology

"Analyzing recent commercial protection and safety deals, we find that revenue deal multiples are in the 1x – 2x range."

Cintas Corp. · CTAS Spruce Point Capital · p. 67
callout before after

"Display revenue has declined despite approximately $900 million of acquisitions and investments to grow this business."

AOL, Inc. · AOL Starboard Value · p. 12
callout ceo quote

"“Pretty much all customers are struggling in phasing in the Lasertec tool”; current revenue likely previous pre-orders"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 209
callout thesis headline

"SNAP is now trading at its largest-ever discount to social media peers despite generating the fastest revenue growth."

Snap Inc. · SNAP Citron Research · p. 2
callout other

"Philidor represented only ~1% of Valeant sales last year, but grew to ~7% of total revenue in the most recent quarter"

Unknown · p. 11
callout villain critique

"We believe Skillz did not disclose these issues because they render the company's lofty revenue projections farcical."

Skillz, Inc. · SKLZ Wolfpack Research · p. 7
callout appendix data

"$524m is 97% of total revenues in FY 2016, and 70% more than CSTE's reported North American segment revenue of $308m."

Caesarstone Ltd. · CSTE Viceroy Research · p. 35
callout peer gap

"Limbach’s limited disclosure, by contrast, makes it difficult to assess the sector concentration of its revenue base."

Limbach Holdings, Inc. · LMB Spruce Point Capital · p. 69
callout demand list

"The Board is responsible for holding management accountable on improving its expected revenue return to at least 38%"

Pfizer Inc. · PFE Starboard Value · p. 71
callout valuation reveal

"Pure trades at 6.3x and 26.9x CY2026 revenue and EBITDA, respectively, representing 95% and 171% premiums to NetApp."

Pure Storage, Inc. · PSTG Kerrisdale Capital · p. 30
callout villain critique

"Here is more evidence to suggest that Baker Hughes might be used as a "cookie jar" reserve when revenues are needed."

C3.ai, Inc. · AI Spruce Point Capital · p. 44