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Apple may finally be free from outside activist shareholder pressure from the likes of Carl Icahn. In his newest letter to shareholders, Icahn appears to be backing off entirely from his push for...
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Pre-eminent proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has come down on the side of Apple in its clash with activist investor Carl Icahn over an additional $50 billion share buyback...
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QEP Resources announced Thursday morning that the company has added two new members to its board of directors, is preparing to file documents with the SEC to separate its midstream business from the...
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Icahn now uses Twitter to communicate his messages rapidly, and the latest tweet shows that he just bought $500 million more in Apple stock. He even joked that his buying is the same as the company's...
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J. C. Penney remains challenged. A new release from the company signals one of two outcomes. First is that it could be taken over against its will. The second is that the company thinks it can become...
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24/7 Wall St. takes a look at some of the stocks that are being or have been pushed and cajoled by activist investors. In many cases, the activist investors helped the smaller investors by...
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Shares of nutrition company Herbalife tumbled as much as 13% Thursday after Sen. Edward Markey asked the government to look into the company's business practices and whether the company is operating...
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courtesy of ebayeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has reported earnings for its fourth quarter, but perhaps even larger news is that Carl Icahn is taking a small stake on the company and is going to pursue...
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RadioShackShares of struggling electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) were up more than 16 percent on Wednesday on news that a hedge-fund manager who likes investing in troubled companies...
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Apple got a mid-day pop on Wednesday due to nothing more than comments from activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn. His position is now believed to top $3 billion, and he called Apple a "no...
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ThinkstockInvestor activism has taken on a different path in the last eighteen months or so. Large companies are no longer off limits, and activists have been able to make changes at companies which...
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Activist investor Nelson Peltz was named to the board of snack food company Mondelez Tuesday, likely to avoid a proxy fight, and he says that he is no longer pushing for a merger deal with PepsiCo.
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Activist investor Elliott Management thinks Juniper Networks shares could easily jump to $35 to $40 and, at the time same, compete better against archrival Cisco Systems. Elliot has acquired a 6.2%...
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Mondelez International, the snack food business recently spun off from Kraft Foods, will sell its controlling interest in its SnackWell's cookie and cracker business to private equity firm Brynwood...
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Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI) said Thursday morning that it plans to hold a tax-free spin-off of its Red Lobster restaurants and that it would consider an outright sale of the chain.
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