I’m considering launching a subscription-only service aimed at identifying stocks similar to those in the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports. Like the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports, I’ll be seeking undervalued industrial companies where a catalyst in the form a buy-out, strategic acquisition, liquidation or activist campaign might emerge to close the gap between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Activist investment’
Greenbackd Endangered Species, Activism and Liquidation Report
Posted in About, Greenbackd, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Greenbackd, Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock on March 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Endangered species list
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Catalyst, LBO, Leveraged buy-out, Private Equity on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Zero Hedge has an interesting article, How To Capitalize On The Upcoming Irrationally Exuberant LBO Bubble, about “the imminent tidal wave of going private deals.” Privatisations are one of the means by which undervalued small capitalization stocks can “close their value gap.” Said Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley in Wall Street’s Endangered Species: Management buy-outs can [...]
MMI nominates director for DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT)
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT), MMI Investments on March 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MMI Investments, the largest holder of DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT) stock, has announced that it sent a letter to Erik A. Lind, Chairman of DHT, formally nominating Robert N. Cowen for election to the DHT board. We started following DHT on Monday. MMI Investments is calling for DHT to reinstate the company’s dividend and appoint Robert N. [...]
DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT) activist situation
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT) on March 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
DHT Holdings Inc (NYSE:DHT) is an interesting activist situation. MMI Investments, DHT’s largest shareholder, is calling for DHT to reinstate the company’s dividend and appoint Robert N. Cowen, a “shipping industry veteran with over 30 years of experience including with DHT’s former parent company, Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., to the DHT Board of Directors.” At [...]
Performance of Darwin’s darlings
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Value Investment on March 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I highlighted an investment strategy I first read about in a Spring 1999 research report called Wall Street’s Endangered Species by Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley, then at Piper Jaffray and now at Discovery Group, a firm founded by Donoghue and Murphy. The premise, simply stated, is to identify undervalued small capitalization stocks [...]
Hunting endangered species
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Catalysts, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Value investing on March 11, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Back in the spring of 1999, when the world was enamored of dot coms and not much else, three guys at Piper Jaffray, Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley*, produced a superb research report called Wall Street’s Endangered Species. The thesis of the paper was that there were a large number of undervalued companies with [...]
Marty Whitman on value and corporate governance
Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Liquidation Value, Marty Whitman, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The superb Manual of Ideas blog has an article by Ravi Nagarajan, Marty Whitman Reflects on Value Investing and Net-Nets, on legendary value investor Marty Whitman’s conversation with Columbia Professor Bruce Greenwald at the Columbia Investment Management Conference in New York. I have in the past discussed Marty Whitman’s adjustments to Graham’s net net formula, which I [...]
Guest post update 2: Farukh Farooqi, Marquis Research on Silicon Storage Technology Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI)
Posted in Activist Investors, Silicon Storage Technology Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI), Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Silicon Storage Technology Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI) on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farukh Farooqi, a long-time supporter of Greenbackd and the founder of Marquis Research, a special situations research and advisory firm (for more on Farukh and his methodology see The Deal in the article “Scavenger Hunter”) provided a guest post on Silicon Storage Technology, Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI) a few weeks back (see the post archive here). At the time of the [...]
Benihana Inc. (NASDAQ:BNHN and BNHNA) Schedule 13D
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Schedule 13D on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I indicated in the first post back for 2010, I’m going to publish some of the more interesting 13D letters filed with the SEC. These are not situations for which I have considered the underlying value proposition, just interesting situations from the perspective of the activist campaign or the Schedule 13D. Benihana Inc. (NASDAQ:BNHN [...]
List of activist investments for December
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Official Activist Investing Blog has published its list of activist investments for December: Ticker Company Investor ALCO Alico Inc. Atlantic Blue Group ALOG Analogic Corporation Ramius Capital ALOY Alloy Inc. SRB Management BASI Bioanalytical Systems Inc Peter Kissinger CNBC Center Bancorp Lawrence Seidman COBR Cobra Electronics Corp Timothy Stabosz CTO Consolidated Tomoka Land Co Wintergreen [...]
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