In his blog, The Icahn Report, Carl Icahn argues in a new post, It’s Up to the Shareholders, Not the Government, to Demand Change at a Company, that “shareholders have been complicit in allowing management excesses and incompetence by not taking a stand.” Nell Minnow, editor and co-founder of the Corporate Library, agrees: Shareholders have [...]
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Icahn says the US government is the world’s biggest activist investor
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carl Icahn says that financial crisis caused by laws that disenfranchised shareholders
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an opinion piece for the New York Times titled, We’re Not the Boss of A.I.G., Carl Icahn argues that the legal “devices” that disenfranchise shareholders “can be found at the root of today’s financial crisis:” The legal landscape is filled with devices designed by state legislators and courts to prevent shareholders from influencing how [...]
Icahns says capitalism should return to its roots
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn on February 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Carl Icahn contributed an article to the Wall Street Journal on President Obama’s plan to limit executive pay to $500,000 a year plus restricted stock for institutions that receive government funding. Icahn argues that while the response is “understandable,” the salary cap fails to address the root cause of the problem: The real problem is [...]
The Icahn Lift
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re unabashed fans of Carl Icahn, who’s reputation for pushing up the stock prices of the companies he invests in has led to a phrase that describes his Midas touch: the “Icahn lift.” We’ve previously covered the billionaire investor’s antics in YHOO here. Our gift to you is 60 Minutes’ August profile on Icahn: It [...]
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Stocks, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today we continue our “Net Net vs Activist Legend” thought experiment, with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). YHOO is a stock that is not cheap on an asset basis but it does have a prominent activist investor with a 5.5% stake and two seats on the board. At its Friday close of $11.66, which is around [...]
List of activist investments for November
Posted in Activist Investors, Autobytel (NASDAQ:ABTL), Avigen (NASDAQ:AVGN), Biotechnology Value Fund, Cannell Capital, Carl Icahn, InFocus Corporation (NASDAQ:INFS), Lloyd I. Miller III, Nery Capital Partners, Net Cash Stocks, Net Net Stocks, Stocks, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Zale Corporation (NYSE:ZLC), tagged ABTL, Activist investment, AVGN, Biotechnology Value Fund, InFocus Corporation (NASDAQ:INFS), infs, Lloyd Miller, Nery Capital Partners, trilogy inc, yhoo, zlc on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Official Activist Investing Blog has published its list of activist investments for November: Ticker Company Activist Investor ABTL Autobytel Inc Trilogy Inc ACF AmeriCredit Corp Fairholme Capital Management ACTL Actel Corp Ramius Capital ADPT Adaptec, Inc Steel Partners ARCW Arc Wireless Solutions Brean Murray Carret Group ATSG Air Transport Services Group Perella Weinberg Partners [...]
Net Net vs Activist Legend
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAM), Stocks, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Greenbackd’s ideal investment opportunity is a deeply undervalued asset situation with a catalyst to quickly remove the discount. Unfortunately, those opportunities are few and far between. We frequently find deeply undervalued asset situations with no obvious catalyst. We also often find activists in stocks that we woud not consider to be undervalued on an asset [...]
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