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Tuesday, February 21, 2017, saw three large companies in the news after activist investors have targeted them. Investors have taken mixed reactions to each effort.
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While the stock picks and holdings of Warren Buffett and his portfolio managers are always followed closely, the number of changes for the 2017 portfolio was huge.
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Depomed has settled with Starboard Value in a move that will bring this activist investor fight to a close. At least for now.
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Icahn's sale caused Chesapeake's shares to dive about 6% on Monday. But when Icahn announced his sale of Transocean stock late Wednesday, the company's shares drifted down only fractionally.
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Carl Icahn believes that Herbalife might be better off as a privately held firm and he has weighed the possibility of launching a tender offer for it.
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An activist investor has sent an open letter to the three newly added board members of Williams Companies encouraging them to be more open to offers for a merger, including a recent one from...
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Time Inc. has a very long history in media, but it has also not been immune from the woes of many older media outfits in the new age of media.
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Herbalife is treating this settlement as a victory. The question now is whether it will begin to aggressively go after Bill Ackman for calling Herbalife a pyramid scheme.
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Insiders at some of the top companies made some of the biggest purchases this past week that we have seen in a while. And buying volume swamped selling volume.
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Activist investor fund Corvex Management has acquired a nearly 10% stake in internet radio company Pandora Media and immediately called for a sale of the company.
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Baker Hughes said Monday that it intends to buy back $1.5 billion in its shares, along with $1 billion in debt.
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Xerox reported mixed first-quarter 2016 results and a company split update before markets opened Monday morning.
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Depomed saw its stock surge early Friday morning following news of an open letter from activist firm Starboard Value.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn has added 4 million class B shares of Freeport-McMoRan to his stake.
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Xerox reportedly will be broken into two pieces, and activist investor Carl Icahn, who has a significant stake in the company's shares, will receive several board seats.
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