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callout disclaimer

"All information provided herein is for informational purposes only and should not be deemed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security mentioned."

Unknown · p. 2
callout villain critique

"EDU is a For Profit, but has Submitted Financials to its PRC Regulator, and Likely to Deloitte, that Claim Otherwise. These Financials are Fraudulent."

callout villain critique

"Yes, FIGS experienced rapid revenue growth. That is why it would be all the more shocking that FIGS management would misrepresent its financial scale."

FIGS, Inc. · FIGS Spruce Point Capital · p. 30
callout kpi overview

"Zoetis stock increased 35% including dividends from inception of our position to date, and increased 31% including dividends from inception to YE 2014"

Unknown · p. 56
callout kpi overview

"Spruce Point finds alarming evidence that WTRG's operating cash flow margin is in continued decline - having been 48.2% in 2017 to just 23.9% in 2022."

Essential Utilities, Inc. · WTRG Spruce Point Capital · p. 42
callout villain critique

"WTRG's Ability To Cover Its Divdend Has Been Declining As It Scales NOT Improving. Free Cash Flow Available For Dividends Started Worsening In FY 2018"

Essential Utilities, Inc. · WTRG Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout other

"As opposed to being a case study in success, it has proved to be a case study in under-appreciated market risk in would-be opportunistic acquisitions."

American Tower Corp · AMT Muddy Waters · p. 67
callout ceo quote

"The yearly rates of mild, moderate and severe events are significantly higher for Aquablation than the minimally invasive surgical therapies analyzed."

PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation · PRCT Spruce Point Capital · p. 35
callout demand list

"Ultimately, we believe that if Dollar Tree executes the key points of our proposed plan, the Company would be worth as much as $150 per share or more."

Dollar Tree, Inc. · DLTR Starboard Value · p. 3
callout ceo quote

"The fact that individual members of the supervisory board have a certain relationship with the company or with its partners is also absolutely normal."

Ströer SE & Co. KGaA · SAX Muddy Waters · p. 42
callout cover

"We appreciate and are humbled by the support our slate received from our fellow shareholders, Dye & Durham employees and leading proxy advisory firms."

Dye & Durham Limited · DND Engine Capital · p. 1
callout ceo quote

"MPWR appears to have a rocky relationship with its largest customer, yet somehow manages “very smooth growth” and is “adept” at “managing the margin”."

Monolithic Power Systems · MPWR Spruce Point Capital · p. 43
callout villain critique

"Vivendi's slate is bundled together, and a number of its nominees have close ties to the Bolloré empire or are simply not suitable candidates to serve"

Telecom Italia · TIT.MI Elliott Management · p. 22
callout villain critique

"In June 2018, SOCFIN CEO and (still current) Bolloré SA director Hubert Fabri was found guilty in the Criminal Court of Brussels of active corruption."

Telecom Italia · TIT.MI Elliott Management · p. 36
callout process diagram

"Why would Darden spend money to attract customers into the restaurant, only to disappoint them with more the same underwhelming food and poor service?"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 172
callout sop buildup

"We believe international franchising could add more than $5 per share in value over time – this value is not included in our $67 – $86 valuation range"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 246
callout villain critique

"BP shareholders paid more than 1.5x the undisturbed price for Archaea Energy shares, than they could have purchased them directly on the stock market."

BP plc · BP Bluebell Capital · p. 15
callout villain critique

"We consulted a leading academic, who concluded the cells are less than 200mAh – that is, less than 1/3th the capacity of a common hearing aid battery."

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 21
callout villain critique

"We believe it is obvious that holders of the PIPE shares – purchased at $10/share – raced for the exits the very next trading day, crushing the stock."

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 179
callout villain critique

"Why does Target’s board continue to nominate its own members and not conduct a professional search for new directors with senior operating experience?"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 74
callout ceo quote

"Due to the nonexistence of the "strong reply", investors showed hesitation about NetQin's business performance, and the stock price continues to drop."

NQ Mobile (NetQin) · NQ Muddy Waters · p. 5
callout villain critique

"In 2016, he boasted of already knowing how to build a 50-100 qubit trapped ion computer - "right now" - yet IonQ appears stuck at 11 qubits for years."

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 33
callout villain critique

"I could go and write a 20-qubit simulator probably on my laptop in a couple of hours, and it would do everything that that 20-qubit computer could do."

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 94
callout villain critique

"The executive didn't state the customer's identity, but we believe it to be Goldman Sachs, perhaps the highest profile "customer" that IonQ has hyped."

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 137
callout peer gap

"We estimate that, on a per-patient-per-day basis, Dexcom spends 59% more to produce the G6 system than Abbott will generate in revenue on the Libre 2."

Dexcom, Inc. · DXCM Spruce Point Capital · p. 34
callout scenario table

"Beating management revenue guidance would require a significant beat in net patient adds given likely downside in average revenue per customer per day"

Dexcom, Inc. · DXCM Spruce Point Capital · p. 77
callout ceo quote

"Shareholder Nominees are completely independent, would constitute a minority of directors, and, unlike Hess's nominees, have not preapproved any plan."

Hess Corporation · HES Elliott Management · p. 100
callout villain critique

"The Board has failed to effectively oversee the Company’s ESG and sustainability efforts, resulting in poor disclosures and little meaningful progress"

callout peer gap

"Tempus has a relatively uncommon requirement that it must maintain minimum consolidated revenues at $1.0 billion to avoid violating its debt covenant."

Tempus AI, Inc. · TEM Spruce Point Capital · p. 32
callout villain critique

"We do not believe the analysts fully factor in the concerns we've identified which we believe make owning Tempus at these levels a poor risk / reward."

Tempus AI, Inc. · TEM Spruce Point Capital · p. 74
callout process diagram

"Why would Darden spend money to attract customers into the restaurant, only to disappoint them with more the same underwhelming food and poor service?"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 172
callout sop buildup

"We believe international franchising could add more than $5 per share in value over time – this value is not included in our $67 – $86 valuation range"

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · DRI Starboard Value · p. 246
callout other

"This is the NYMEX futures price for natural gas. The curve reflects a recovery, subject to seasonality. We use the commodity forward curve in our DCF."

CONSOL Energy · CNX Greenlight Capital · p. 48
callout comparison table

"We believe Xylem may have misrepresented revenue dis-synergies by failing to disclose and quantify intercompany sales and competitive product overlap."

Xylem Inc. · XYL Spruce Point Capital · p. 43
callout ceo quote

"The fundamental test of success and sustainability is performance - the delivery of real results, quarter by quarter, year by year against promises..."

Hess Corporation · HES Elliott Management · p. 3
callout ceo quote

"It is difficult to understand how SOFI would recover materially more for a loan that is, e.g., 110 days past due versus one that is 125 days past due."

callout other

"This implies a recovery rate of roughly 24% to 40%, which appears unrealistic and raises concerns about the reliability of the DCF model used by SOFI."

callout process diagram

"SOFI seemingly provides substantially all of the financing, all the servicing, and holds a security interest in the same loans it claims to have sold."

SoFi Technologies, Inc. · SOFI Muddy Waters · p. 13
callout transition

"As low-cost workflow options grow increasingly diverse and easier-to-use, we expect more and more Align doctors to explore alternatives to Invisalign."

Align Technology, Inc. · ALGN Spruce Point Capital · p. 55
callout ceo quote

"Mark Donegan has a clear understanding of the relationship between PCC’s activities and its strategic ends. The genuine article. Accept no substitutes"

Arconic Inc. · ARNC Elliott Management · p. 135
callout nominee bio

"Edgewater's legacy directors represent a tired and broken Board that has failed to maximize shareholder value despite having over ten years to deliver"

callout executive summary

"However, this is a charade. In the substantial majority of cases, the owners of these distributors are merely proxies for ANTA Chairman Ding Shizhong."

callout villain critique

"Warning: We believe Oatly’s Chairman of the Board provides a disingenuous biography that fails to capture his recent experience with Genius Foods Ltd."

Oatly Group AB · OTLY Spruce Point Capital · p. 26
callout peer gap

"While Zebra talked about double digit and mid-teens growth in RFID, Impinj grew systems revenues (which include readers) at a 26% CAGR from 2020-2023."

Zebra Technologies Corp. · ZBRA Spruce Point Capital · p. 36
callout villain critique

"Twist used “shocking” discounts of 75% to lure customers away from Danaher/IDT, which allegedly used the phrase “Ponzi scheme” in internal discussions"

Twist Bioscience · TWST Scorpion Capital · p. 30
callout villain critique

"BK will incur hundreds of millions of dollars of expenses to pursue strategic investments that will only become accretive to earnings in 2017 and 2018"

callout transition

"Instead, the BNY brand is splintered across a multitude of names, entities and preconceptions, without a motivating image the public can connect with."

callout peer gap

"Despite the attractive cash flow characteristics of OUTR’s core Redbox and Coinstar operations, shareholders have NOTHING to show for their investment"

Outerwall Inc. · OUTR Engaged Capital · p. 8
callout peer gap

"Motive safety camera solutions dramatically outperformed Samsara in a recent independent test conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute."

Samsara Inc. · IOT Spruce Point Capital · p. 51
callout peer gap

"Driver monitoring is particularly at risk if autonomous vehicle technologies are adopted, which seems increasingly likely over an extended time frame."

Samsara Inc. · IOT Spruce Point Capital · p. 85
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point's forensic accounting analysis reveals that the most recent amendment actually reduced the net cash commitments from the Baker Hughes JV."

C3.ai, Inc. · AI Spruce Point Capital · p. 39
callout villain critique

"Former employees have also indicated to us that management is unusually conscious of Wall Street expectations, and aggressive in pushing to meet them."

Amdocs Limited · DOX Spruce Point Capital · p. 93
callout section divider

"Why We Believe The Global Strategic Plan Will Fail. Saputo's Upside Opportunities In Plant-Based Cheeses And Direct-To-Consumer Are Already Struggling"

Saputo Inc. · TSX:SAP Spruce Point Capital · p. 115
callout ceo quote

"Spruce Point believes that Saputo’s ambitions to grow its U.S. dairy-free cheese business will be problematic given its current distribution partners."

Saputo Inc. · TSX:SAP Spruce Point Capital · p. 126
callout other

"HHC’s 66-acre lakefront Hughes Landing project highlights how a well-planned commercial downtown development within an MPC can create meaningful value"

Howard Hughes Corporation · HHC Pershing Square · p. 24
callout process diagram

"Given the incentives of the various parties involved in a typical bankruptcy, equity holders require a shareholder advocate to protect their interests"

General Growth Properties · GGWPQ Pershing Square · p. 33
callout villain critique

"Multiple credible news sources reported that "badass" was the terminology used by NXIVM's subcult of women known as DOS (Dominus Obsequious Sororium)."

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. · ELF Spruce Point Capital · p. 25
callout ceo quote

"The Company believed that it would nearly double Adjusted EBITDA in the Textile Effects business and raise Adjusted EBITDA margins into the mid-teens."

Huntsman Corporation · HUN Starboard Value · p. 195