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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 section divider

"Key trial investigators broadly rebuke VYKAT XR as a failure and looming safety disaster – summaries of each interview."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 53
callout villain critique

"Not surprisingly, posts are already piling up with parents indicating they have discontinued the drug or considering it"

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 177
callout villain critique

"As we shall show, the claim that the PK profiles are different is , making the two formulations freely interchangeable."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 199
callout villain critique

"I can't think of any reason why the substitution couldn't achieve the same result...yeah, I agree with your assessment."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 219
callout villain critique

"“Hourly Consulting Pay” is unrelated to “hours” or “consulting.” It is merely a deceptive label for recruiting rewards."

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 24
callout ceo quote

"We had much better compounds based on physical property and drug-like properties than pitolisant. So, we pursued those."

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 97
callout other

"Whale prescribers cutting prescriptions as they run out of patients or have no clinical results or “heat” from insurers"

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 359
callout villain critique

"In our opinion, Prestige shares many of the same accounting and financial strains that foreshadowed Boulder's collapse."

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. · PBH Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
callout peer gap

"Non-memory (memory is more commoditized) semiconductor bellwethers largely trade in a range of 10-16x forward year EBIT"

Sony Corporation · 6758.T Third Point · p. 34
callout villain critique

"The fact that they don’t have a commercial office in North America suggests that they have little to no business there."

ZJK Industrial · ZJK White Diamond Research · p. 4
callout appendix methodology

"We believe the previous purchase price of $1.92M better reflects the value of the property at the time of the purchase."

callout demand list

"New leadership to be laser-focused on executing against plan targets, with a refreshed Board providing strong oversight"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 56
callout before after

"The Stronger Southwest plan ambitiously addresses the Company’s key issues and delivers a brighter future for Southwest"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 60
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 villain critique

"We estimate pro forma net leverage would be at ~5x today, reflecting Disney’s lower run-rate EBITDA compared to FY 2018"

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 23
callout villain critique

"There is no proof that any optimization problem is solved faster using [D-Wave's] system compared to classical solvers."

D-Wave Quantum Inc · QBTS Kerrisdale Capital · p. 9
callout villain critique

"Misclassifying finished goods as work-in-process inventory are "tricks any supplier can play"; many ways to call it WIP"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 241
callout sop buildup

"These businesses are not as profitable as either Soda Ash or Peroxides, but they provide stability and diversification."

Solvay SA · SOLB BB Greenlight Capital · p. 36
quote ceo quote

""Return of capital is an important part of the CTC story" — RBC Capital Markets Equity Research Note (October 31, 2019)"

Canadian Tire Corporation · CTC.A Spruce Point Capital · p. 65
quote other

""You just have to have good people if you are going to have a good operation, without them you are lost." — Bill Darden"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 183
quote villain critique

"But I'm home now. There shouldn't be anything on QQ because our hard drives have been replaced at that time. — CCME Rep"

quote ceo quote

"Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer — TechCrunch article, Sep 2020"

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 75
quote villain critique

"“isn’t really real”; “way too much instability”; “not really useful”; “run times are really slow” — Anonymous customers"

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 132
quote precedent table

"The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success — William N. Thorndike, Jr."

Allergan, Inc. · AGN Pershing Square · p. 12
quote ceo quote

""You just have to have good people if you are going to have a good operation, without them you are lost." — Bill Darden"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 183
quote demand list

"we recognize that we did not deliver on expectations we set in the past. — US Foods public letter, dated April 18, 2022"

quote villain critique

"“we've made all the updates in the labeling that we need to do and in the packaging that we need to do” — CEO Blackford"

iRhythm Technologies, Inc. · IRTC Spruce Point Capital · p. 87
quote ceo quote

"“我们团队战术考虑最多是整个集体,我在离终点5公里的时候,扛着红旗,确保有的远征军第二师人员都能安全到达,这才是我们的大目标。” — Anta Kunming Company's General Manager: Lin Sankuang"

quote villain critique

"“semiconductor chip technology to electrochemically synthesize DNA right on the chip surface.” — Dec 2017 press release"

Twist Bioscience · TWST Scorpion Capital · p. 49
quote villain critique

"“So, the other people are twice as fast, basically.” — Novartis, a large Twist customer, scientist in a leadership role"

Twist Bioscience · TWST Scorpion Capital · p. 149
quote villain critique

"AfterDox's partners are all current and former top executives - from Amdocs and from other leading high-tech companies."

Amdocs Limited · DOX Spruce Point Capital · p. 92
quote villain critique

"UNITED THERAPEUTICS AND HERBALIFE INTERNATIONAL SETTLE ALL PATENT LITIGATION — United Therapeutics Press Release (2006)"

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 37
quote villain critique

"「信じられないほど大量のレーザーテック製のコレクターを現場で見たことがあります。......コレクターごとに何十万ドルもかかります。......表面からデブリを剥がしてコレクターを使える状態に復帰させるのに2日近くかかります」 — 元幹部"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 132
quote other

"「実はある会社は、表向きにはレーザーテック製の極端紫外線装置を使っていると公表しつつも、実際は同社の従来の深紫外線装置を使っていたとわかり、びっくりしました」 — 極端紫外線リソグラフィーの名だたる専門家で、レーザーテックの顧客に近いA氏"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 294
quote other

"Comments by CEO Sebastian Kanovich on DLO's Q3 2021 call that local-to-local had reached 30% of TPV support this range."

DLocal Ltd. · DLO Muddy Waters · p. 28
quote appendix data

"「レーザーテック製の装置については、不良が多発しており、製品として『用途を満たす』とすら言えなくなっているために、『直近の出荷予定を延期した顧客がある』とグローバルファウンドリーズの元幹部はいう。」 — グローバルファウンドリーズの元幹部"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 36
quote villain critique

"$PLUG Way to go Andy, master of share destruction. No one does it better, one lie at a time. — FraudBuster (Stocktwits)"

Plug Power Inc. · PLUG Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
quote villain critique

""It was Frankenstein-ish. I didn't like it at all," "My tongue was just thrashing over my teeth." — Victoria McCullough"

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. · INSP Wolfpack Research · p. 49
quote appendix data

"If you're not doing anything unique or proprietary, then there's no reason to go with Perion. — Former Perion Executive"

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 118
quote villain critique

"AS YOU CAN SEE, BY LATE NEXT MONTH YOU'LL HAVE OVER FOUR DOZEN HUSBANDS. BETTER GET A BULK RATE ON WEDDING CAKE. — XKCD"

Core Laboratories · CLB Greenlight Capital · p. 12
quote villain critique

"¡Y no te dicen nada de eso! “Bueno, todo lo que necesitamos de ti, es $200 dólares y ya estás en el negocio”. — MUJER 9"

Herbalife · HLF Pershing Square · p. 4
quote villain critique

"Thank you. Interested in booking ULTIMATE SPLENDOUR. Can I see a photo of the masseuse? — Grizzly Research Investigator"

Accor SA · AC Grizzly Research · p. 150
quote nominee bio

"We look forward to welcoming the nominees as new Board members and believe they will be valuable contributors — DSP CEO"

DSP Group, Inc. · DSPG Starboard Value · p. 24
callout villain critique

"Deceptive persons often respond with moral outrage and bewilderment when confronted with an accusation of wrong-doing."

Stroer SE & Co. KGaA · SAX Muddy Waters · p. 11
callout other

"We believe that calculating ITCs in a recursive manner contradicts the intent of the legislation that created the ITC."

Sunrun Inc. · RUN Muddy Waters · p. 12
callout process diagram

"Henry Schein’s relationships and integrity with vets worldwide will “turbo charge” Vets First Choice’s growth profile."

Henry Schein, Inc. · HSIC Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
callout process diagram

"Vets First Choice will likely have grown its U.S. market share to 36% by the end of 2018 from ~20% at the end of 2017."

Henry Schein, Inc. · HSIC Spruce Point Capital · p. 23
callout other

"HLF's share price has increased 18% including dividends from our average cost at announcement date to January 20, 2017"

Unknown · p. 67
callout sop buildup

"In effect, Valeant is three diverse businesses, with unique opportunities and challenges and divergent growth profiles"

Unknown · p. 74
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point believes this news came at an opportune time for the Company, days ahead of the beginning of its lock-up."

Genius Sports Limited · GENI Spruce Point Capital · p. 9
callout ceo quote

"While we acknowledge FIGS has strong brand awareness, we believe the Company understates its reliance on social media."

FIGS, Inc. · FIGS Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout villain critique

"Shareholders are picking up the tab for CEO Dovigi to purchase a new car annually and personal use of the Company jet."

GFL Environmental Inc. · GFL Spruce Point Capital · p. 40
callout kpi overview

"Restaurant Brands International’s share price increased 175% including dividends since it merged with Justice Holdings"

Unknown · p. 49
callout villain critique

"Generac's acquisition of Enbala Power Networks in Oct 2020 has the flavor of a failed, but highly promoted investment."

Generac Holdings, Inc. · GNRC Spruce Point Capital · p. 93