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callout villain critique

"Nuvei listed Allan Lacoste below its CEO and CFO on the investor relations website. Most recently, his biography is no longer listed under Executive Management."

Nuvei Corp · NVEI Spruce Point Capital · p. 41
callout peer gap

"In 2018, Southwest had best-in-class margins. Today, Southwest’s margins are the lowest in the peer group and approximately 900 basis points below best-in-class"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 20
callout peer gap

"In 2018, Southwest had best-in-class margins. Today, Southwest’s margins are the lowest in the peer group and approximately 900 basis points below best-in-class"

Unknown · p. 31
callout peer gap

"In 2018, Southwest had best-in-class margins. Today, Southwest’s margins are the lowest in the peer group and approximately 900 basis points below best-in-class"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 20
callout other

"However, train speeds remain ~10% below 2019 train speed levels and these recent train speeds are on depressed levels of volume in the Norfolk Southern network."

callout peer gap

"In 2018, Southwest had best-in-class margins. Today, Southwest’s margins are the lowest in the peer group and approximately 900 basis points below best-in-class"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 31
quote other

"Based on challenging macroeconomic conditions, our class of 2022 and class of 2023 new stores are estimated to be below these targets. — Floor & Decor 2023 10-K"

Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. · FND Spruce Point Capital · p. 46
callout ceo quote

"While it does appear that Temptime now offers food temperature indicators, the product category appears to be competitive with label prices well below $1 each."

Zebra Technologies Corp. · ZBRA Spruce Point Capital · p. 54
callout ceo quote

"Unfortunately, we believe that this plan does not go far enough as margins will still be significantly below nearly all of the Company's peers, as shown below."

Magellan Health, Inc. · MGLN Starboard Value · p. 5
callout peer gap

"While there are some differences in business model and mix, both S&P Ratings and MH Financial operate at margins well below best-in-class pure play competitors"

The McGraw-Hill Companies · MHP JANA Partners · p. 39
callout valuation reveal

"We believe Magnite’s shares represent an incredibly poor risk / reward. The current sell-side consensus price is $21.71 which is ~20% below the current price."

Magnite, Inc. · MGNI Spruce Point Capital · p. 51
callout peer gap

"Pioneer Power stands out as Limbach’s lowest-margin acquisition, with EBITDA margins meaningfully below those of its prior targets and of the legacy business."

Limbach Holdings, Inc. · LMB Spruce Point Capital · p. 47
callout villain critique

"Greenlight does not understand how debt securities that have to be partially equitized due to below plan operating performance can have a fair value of cost."

Allied Capital · ALD Greenlight Capital · p. 17
callout peer gap

"As a result, Bristol-Myers' P/E ratio is now at its lowest level in years and below its peer group, despite a growing franchise and a net cash balance sheet."

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company · BMY Starboard Value · p. 14
callout villain critique

"The below is the SAIC record for Minqing showing Yang Zhang’s wife as the controlling shareholder, having incorporated it just two weeks before the transfer:"

TAL Education Group · TAL Muddy Waters · p. 19
callout scqa situation

"Housing starts are currently at ~25% of peak levels achieved in 2006 and have been below the long-term trend of sustainable housing demand for nearly 4 years"

callout appendix data

"In the screenshots below, you can see a partial list of the sanctions imposed upon Moxian Shenzhen, Moyi Shenzhen, and Moxian Shanghai by the PRC government:"

Moxian, Inc. · MOXC Wolfpack Research · p. 19
callout kpi overview

"Total Company performance has continued to deteriorate despite a single year of improvement in SCC, which still remains far below its optimal profitability."

GCP Applied Technologies · GCP Starboard Value · p. 36
callout villain critique

"The bullet points below catalog the various discrepancies. Note that 2019 numbers remain consistent, confirming that these are apples-to-apples comparisons."

DLocal Ltd. · DLO Muddy Waters · p. 7
callout villain critique

"BP had previously - in the case R (Galloway) v. Durham County Council - unlawfully sought authorization for a 76 MW plant while claiming it was below 50 MW."

BP Plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 8
quote villain critique

""Our 10 director nominees bring a balance of skills, qualifications and backgrounds in overseeing our company, as highlighted below" — AVY Proxy March 2020"

Avery Dennison Corporation · AVY Spruce Point Capital · p. 72
quote appendix data

"Mr Galloway has said, from the start, that capacity means "maximum instantaneous output" and that you measure it by the Combined-Panels Method (§16 below)."

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 12
quote appendix data

"Mr Galloway has said, from the start, that capacity means 'maximum instantaneous output' and that you measure it by the Combined-Panels Method (§16 below)."

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 17
callout kpi overview

"For four years, from 2003 to 2006, the management fee stayed below 25% until both underwriting profitability and the surplus returned to healthier levels."

Erie Indemnity Company · ERIE Spruce Point Capital · p. 15
callout ceo quote

"The current street consensus numbers are well below management's projections filed in the deal proxy statement a little more than a year ago in June 2017."

Maxar Technologies · MAXR Spruce Point Capital · p. 62
callout villain critique

"Not all the credits are money good. Against the $7 billion of equity, AGO insured more than $12 billion bonds that are now rated “below investment grade.”"

Assured Guaranty · AGO Greenlight Capital · p. 25
callout villain critique

"RILY’s NAV is Far Below the $1.1 Billion Minimum NAV Requirement That Is Required for the Nomura Credit Agreement Putting RILY at Risk of Collapse in 2023"

B. Riley Financial, Inc. · RILY Wolfpack Research · p. 6
callout ceo quote

"As shown below, while NVDA is up 1,937% since February 2019, cosmetics-maker e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) has that number beat with an even bigger gain of 2,639%!"

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. · ELF Muddy Waters · p. 9
callout peer gap

"However, TWX magazines are not among the fastest growing titles in terms of advertising pages or advertising revenue growth as shown in the tables below:"

Time Warner Inc. · TWX Carl Icahn · p. 149
callout process diagram

"The structure of both Carvana's initial loan sales and its recent refinancings is depicted below. Note that Ally is replaced as the lender to the trust."

Carvana Co. · CVNA Spruce Point Capital · p. 81
callout villain critique

"The chart below shows Anthony Powell’s monthly Personal Volume from 1996 to 2000. You might think it would be driven by the vagaries of retail demand..."

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 165
callout peer gap

"Only 1 of the 18 companies in AOL's 2011 peer group has a market cap below AOL's market cap and only one company has revenue barely below AOL's revenue."

AOL, Inc. · AOL Starboard Value · p. 64
callout ceo quote

"WTRG is no longer showing the slide below and, for the first time since 2019, is warning that long-term trends favor 1% annual declines in water usage."

Essential Utilities, Inc. · WTRG Spruce Point Capital · p. 23
callout kpi overview

"Lowe's sales/ft² is 25% less than peak levels achieved nearly six years ago. EBIT margins are ~350bps below peak margins achieved nearly five years ago"

Lowe's Companies, Inc. · LOW Pershing Square · p. 12
callout villain critique

"Based on our calculation of Adjusted Net Income, management would have been below the threshold of $690m required to receive a bonus under CTC's STIP"

Canadian Tire Corporation · CTC.A Spruce Point Capital · p. 96
callout peer gap

"While Zebra has done a good job expanding services and software gross margin to 53.7%, the margin profile is materially below the 73.2% peer average."

Zebra Technologies Corp. · ZBRA Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
callout valuation reveal

"The implied valuation range for Target Corp based on several methodologies outlined below is $27.5 – $32.5bn, or $38 – $45/share 12 months from today"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 137
callout villain critique

"Would the $4.63 billion aviation initiative fund a $500 million purchase of 100 eVTOLs? Given the huge masterplan shown below, it is highly doubtful."

Archer Aviation Inc · ACHR Grizzly Research · p. 49
callout transition

"Beyond the remaining troubled “below investment grade” exposures, AGO has significant exposure to other potentially problematic areas down the line."

Assured Guaranty · AGO Greenlight Capital · p. 59
callout villain critique

"We find that FDA inspections of Curexa in 2022 and 2020 uncovered sloppy operations, below-strength products, and even facility structural concerns."

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. · HIMS Spruce Point Capital · p. 59
callout ceo quote

"A ratio below 100% does not signal strength and we do not believe investors should buy into the praise showered on WSP's M&A discipline by the CEO."

WSP Global Inc. · WSP Spruce Point Capital · p. 18
callout ceo quote

"Therefore, we believe iKentoo had very little growth from 2017-2019, and we estimate its ARPU was $100 per month, or 50% below LSPD's ARPU of $200."

Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. · LSPD Spruce Point Capital · p. 77
callout precedent table

"Out of the ten convertible financings shown below, all included significantly larger investments than KKR's investment in the Preferred Financing."

Box, Inc. · BOX Starboard Value · p. 87
callout peer gap

"Cognizant maintains operating margins below HCL and Wipro, despite those being structurally lower margin businesses (low-to-mid 30% gross margin)."

Cognizant Technology Solutions · CTSH Elliott Management · p. 5
callout cover

"As you see in the chart below, since IPO, Lamb Weston's sales have roughly doubled, yet the Company has generated little to no operating leverage."

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. · LW Starboard Value · p. 1
callout sop buildup

"$722.9 million works out to $1.50 million per owned restaurant, which is significantly below the Company's stated cost to build a new restaurant."

callout villain critique

"QS lab tests are based on a small pouch cell. For some tests, QS doesn't even disclose the size, suggesting it's even smaller than the one below."

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 163
callout comparison table

"We applaud Goldman Sachs for being the lone skeptic and below market price target on O Realty. We expect other brokers to follow with downgrades."

Realty Income Corp · O Spruce Point Capital · p. 39
callout executive summary

"The Standalone Plan (described below) offers a clear path to NAV of more than ¥40,000 per share by 2028 – more than double the Revised TOB price."

Toyota Industries Corporation · 6201 Elliott Management · p. 2
callout villain critique

"We believe Samsara (IOT), like the examples below, promotes itself to retail yet fails to have a sustainable path to profitability and cash flow."

Samsara Inc. · IOT Spruce Point Capital · p. 6
callout ceo quote

"Actual FY 2020 Adjusted EBITDA was 6% below threshold, which should have resulted in NO annual cash bonus payment if targets had not been revised"

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 27
callout ceo quote

"Actual FY 2020 Adjusted EBITDA was 6% below threshold, which should have resulted in NO annual cash bonus payment if targets had not been revised"

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 121
callout villain critique

"Epiq now trades ~28% below the initial P2 proposal, and is nearly unchanged from the unaffected stock price prior to Villere's initial 13D filing"

callout before after

"Wall Street analysts estimated Adjusted EBITDA would be 30% BELOW the Company's initial 2018 Investor Day target even before the global pandemic."

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 18
callout appendix data

"The table below presents the gains and losses by deposit for both Measured and Indicated (M&I) Resources and Proven and Probable (P&P) Reserves."

Asanko Gold Inc. · AKG Muddy Waters · p. 30
callout peer gap

"Perion's audit fees at just 0.10% of revenues are wildly below the average fee paid of approximately 0.44% in the advertising technology space."

Perion Network Ltd. · PERI Spruce Point Capital · p. 21
callout villain critique

"As shown in the chart below, the more revenue Agility generates, the more money it loses - in that sense, Agility is more of the same for INOD."

Innodata, Inc. · INOD Wolfpack Research · p. 13
callout villain critique

"However, as we can see below, the results that PMV shared in their latest 10-K8 did not line up, suggesting that they are not the same protein."

PMV Pharmaceuticals · PMVP Wolfpack Research · p. 5
callout peer gap

"as shown in the chart below, over the past 5 years, on average, the Company has spent almost double the percentage of revenue on R&D as peers."

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company · BMY Starboard Value · p. 12