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callout peer gap

"Underinvesting during recession when steel prices, crew costs, and opportunity costs of closing track are lowest"

Canadian Pacific Railway · CP Pershing Square · p. 34
callout section divider

"Why After Three Contract Amendments, We Believe C3's Relationship With Its Largest Customer Will Eventually Fail"

C3.ai, Inc. · AI Spruce Point Capital · p. 32
callout villain critique

"He recently made a large sale of 60,000 shares after the recent earnings report and increase in the share price."

Saputo Inc. · TSX:SAP Spruce Point Capital · p. 146
callout demand list

"We believe there is an opportunity to create significant value under the leadership of a new and improved Board."

GCP Applied Technologies · GCP Starboard Value · p. 13
callout precedent table

"Starboard reconstituted a majority of Marvell's Board with capable directors who guided a successful turnaround."

GCP Applied Technologies · GCP Starboard Value · p. 125
callout ceo quote

"We see a lot of potential in the Phillips 66 refining company. I mean, there's just tremendous capability there."

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 2
callout appendix data

"Significant data errors allowed P&G to grossly overstate both the peer median and the expansion of peer margins."

callout villain critique

"In the absence of information, investors have voted with their capital, as demonstrated by TI’s TSR performance."

Texas Instruments · TXN Elliott Management · p. 7
callout ceo quote

"We are concerned that the Company has been caught flat-footed during a period of seismic change in the industry."

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 55
callout peer gap

"Disney's studio business, which historically had the best margins in the industry, has turned into a "black box""

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 106
callout ceo quote

"The Board has failed to respond to shareholders’ repeated requests for significant environmental risk oversight."

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 37
callout ceo quote

"The Board has failed to respond to shareholders’ repeated requests for significant environmental risk oversight."

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 153
callout precedent table

"Since 2002, TWX has returned significantly less capital to its shareholders than other major US media companies."

Time Warner Inc. · TWX Carl Icahn · p. 214
callout other

"As everyone knows, EVs are expected to grow from 11% of vehicles last year to over 40% by the end of the decade."

Vitesco Technologies · VTSC Greenlight Capital · p. 20
callout villain critique

"SG&A's Lockstep Move with Royalty Overrides Provides a Clue as to Where Herbalife Conceals Other Reward Payments"

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 142
callout thesis headline

"Axon has rapidly inflated its Total Addressable Market (TAM) from $4.8bn (2016), $6.5bn (2017) to $8.4bn (2019)."

Axon Enterprise (formerly TASER) · AAXN Spruce Point Capital · p. 6
callout other

"We believe there is an ample amount of low hanging fruit; so much fruit that it may even be touching the ground."

CarMax Inc. · KMX Starboard Value · p. 3
callout demand list

"We believe the gap between current performance and long-term potential can be closed with disciplined execution."

CarMax Inc. · KMX Starboard Value · p. 6
callout villain critique

"Qontigo makes no secret that it wants to challenge MSCI and is claiming market share gains by winning customers."

MSCI Inc. · MSCI Spruce Point Capital · p. 26
callout villain critique

"We believe it may be a negative sign when a creditor begins receiving more than 25 bankruptcy notices per month."

Intuit Inc. · INTU Spruce Point Capital · p. 28
callout ceo quote

"We believe investors have failed to scrutinize the new business generation implications of this strategy change."

Intuit Inc. · INTU Spruce Point Capital · p. 75
callout valuation reveal

"We believe Salesforce can reach the Rule of 50 and generate more than $20 of free cash flow per share in FY2028."

Salesforce, Inc. · CRM Starboard Value · p. 13
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point questions what exactly is Content IQ ("CIQ") since Perion has presented two different descriptions."

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 103
callout villain critique

"仮に、Fab 4A内で装置の試験あるいは最終微調整が行われていれば、そのラップを外し、出荷前に装置を再度シュリンクラップで包まなければいけない。装置ごとにそうしていれば、ラップの大量のゴミが発生するはずだが、その気配はない。"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 327
callout peer gap

"Despite high AUVs and industry leading revenue, Darden's operating performance is significantly worse than peers"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 19
callout peer gap

"Despite high AUVs and industry leading revenue, Darden’s operating performance is significantly worse than peers"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 83
callout villain critique

"Since the acquisition, Sole’s net revenue has declined 12.9%, and it only recently generated positive OP margin."

Nidec Corp. · 6594 JP Muddy Waters · p. 31
callout villain critique

"At 1.5 meals a day per employee, Mayer's perk has cost $450M over 4 years. That's half an Instagram right there."

Yahoo! Inc. · YHOO SpringOwl · p. 58
callout villain critique

"Neither Mayer nor De Castro has ever dug into his/her own pockets to purchase any Yahoo stock on the open market"

Yahoo! Inc. · YHOO SpringOwl · p. 57
callout ceo quote

"The bottom line coming from them is that it's not worth the investment, according to what they have seen so far."

Berkeley Lights · BLI Scorpion Capital · p. 68
callout other

"Stryker modified its valuation of the inventory 5 times, from nearly a 100% increase to a final increase of 82%."

Stryker Corp. · SYK Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout peer gap

"Specifically, monthly visits are almost 20% more, and duration of time spent on Terminix’s website is 2x longer."

Rollins Inc. · ROL Spruce Point Capital · p. 15
callout villain critique

"This has the consequence of inflating FTAI’s EBITDA margins, which are ~ten percentage points higher than peers."

FTAI Aviation Ltd. · FTAI Muddy Waters · p. 30
callout villain critique

"We also identified two active violations associated with ACE Aggregates, LLC and its portable crushing facility."

Construction Partners, Inc. · ROAD Spruce Point Capital · p. 50
callout ceo quote

"It might surprise Core to learn that when you start at $79 and finish at $55 you are lower than where you began."

Core Laboratories · CLB Greenlight Capital · p. 54
callout villain critique

"The IPO and secondary were intended to enrich insiders, rather than to raise significant capital for investment."

DLocal Ltd. · DLO Muddy Waters · p. 45
callout appendix data

"AC installed export capacity should not be seen as an appropriate tool to constrain the impacts of a solar farm."

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 20
callout peer gap

"Many leading technology companies now embrace dividends to instill managerial discipline and reward stockholders"

BMC Software · BMC Elliott Management · p. 59
callout demand list

"BMC's issue is its operational execution and not the quality and value proposition of its products and solutions"

BMC Software · BMC Elliott Management · p. 51
callout process diagram

"Simultaneous deconsolidation (split) of SEC and SDI on the same basis, each into their respective OpCo and InvCo"

Samsung C&T Corporation · 028260 KS Palliser Capital · p. 57
callout kpi overview

"While the company has made steady progress in boosting margins, we believe that optimized margins are far higher"

Unknown · p. 13
callout other

"We assume $175 per metric tonne of met coal for 2022 and 2023, while many analysts assume $150 per metric tonne."

Teck Resources · TECK Greenlight Capital · p. 52
callout appendix methodology

"We estimate that Target's ground lease credit risk should be materially lower than Target's unsecured CDS spread"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 74
callout other

"AlphaSense interviewed a former SVP of Marketing at SnapAV who worked there through the acquisition of Control4."

Resideo Technologies, Inc. · REZI Spruce Point Capital · p. 56
callout ceo quote

"Programs drive both predictable near-term revenues and long-term value creation with asymmetric upside potential"

Ginkgo Bioworks · DNA Scorpion Capital · p. 36
callout section divider

"7. The related party “customers” are mostly fronts for Ginkgo and its revenue is therefore an elaborate fiction."

Ginkgo Bioworks · DNA Scorpion Capital · p. 77
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point believes the stock-for-stock merger of Amcor + Bemis was a deal done out of necessity for survival."

Amcor plc · AMCR Spruce Point Capital · p. 21
callout ceo quote

"Amcor bulls see 19%, but most have failed to conduct a forensic analysis of management’s statements vs. reality."

Amcor plc · AMCR Spruce Point Capital · p. 88
callout process diagram

"We anticipate margin uplift by 27% on a pro forma forward basis, resulting in estimated operating margin of 6.7%"

Hyundai Motor Group Elliott Management · p. 34
callout kpi overview

"PSH's ability to access low-cost, investment-grade, long-term debt is an important competitive advantage for PSH"

Pershing Square Holdings · PSH Pershing Square · p. 9
callout villain critique

"Unknown to most investors, Nevro faces an impending, disruptive competitive threat within 6 to 12 months: Saluda"

Nevro Corp. · NVRO Scorpion Capital · p. 187
callout villain critique

"The executive turnover at CLEAR is very alarming with no prompt 8-K filed for Richard Patterson and Jon Feldman."

Clear Secure, Inc. · YOU Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout thesis headline

"Palliser firmly believes that the terms of the NewMed transaction fall well short of Capricorn’s intrinsic value"

Capricorn Energy · CNE Palliser Capital · p. 5
callout ceo quote

"We are concerned that the Company has been caught flat-footed during a period of seismic change in the industry."

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 55
callout peer gap

"Disney's studio business, which historically had the best margins in the industry, has turned into a "black box""

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 106
callout villain critique

"After the initial buzz surrounding the much-anticipated launch in mid-February, download activity has plummeted."

Digital World Acquisition Corp · DWAC Kerrisdale Capital · p. 17