To the Editor: Pfizer has a lot of good and bad points, as mentioned in your cover story “Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.” (Feb. 3). But the hardest one to deal with for all bio...
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Salesforce Stock Leaps As Elliott Management Builds Activist Stake
Updated at 6:10 am EST Salesforce (CRM) – Get Free Report shares were marked firmly higher Monday following reports that activist investor Elliott Management has taken a stake in the world̵...
For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed
“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Buys Up More Howard Hughes Stock
These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities. Subsequen...
Gates Foundation Bought More of This Medical Diagnostics Stock
Text size These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities....
PayPal Is Being Targeted by Activist Elliott. Here’s Why.
Text size PayPal shares have slid this year as people have returned to their prepandemic spending habits. Courtesy of PayPal Payments giant PayPal finally has attracted an activist. PayPal (ticker: PY...
Western Digital Said It Would Consider Breaking in Two. Its Stock Is Dropping.
Text size Activist investor Elliott Management says that Western Digital’s flash memory business alone could be worth as much as the whole company now. Dreamstime Western Digital stock, after an...
Unilever Stock Rises Sharply as Nelson Peltz Is Added to Board
Text size Unilever makes food and household goods such as Dove soap, Hellmann’s mayonnaise, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. ANP/AFP via Getty Images Unilever said it appointed Nelson Pelt...
Bill Ackman Goes All Aboard On Canadian Pacific Railway
Summary The activist investor’s previous investment in the company resulted in a management overhaul. Canadian Pacific recently acquired Kansas City Southern. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman (T...
Occidental Petroleum Stock Spikes. 3 Reasons for the Jump.
Text size Shares of Occidental Petroleum are up nearly 90% over the past 12 months. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum stock was rising sharply Monday. There are three reasons for the mov...
Occidental Petroleum Stock Spikes. Here Are the Reasons Why.
Text size Spencer Platt/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum stock was rising sharply Monday. There are three reasons why. First, oil prices were surging Monday on supply fears as the U.S. and its allies...
Carl Icahn Slashes Stake in Occidental Petroleum
Text size These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities....
Kohl’s Stock Surges as Retailer Feels Pressure From 2 Possible Suitors
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s shares surged more than 28% in premarket trading Monday following reports the retailer could be fielding takeover offers from two suitors. The Wall Street...
Starboard-Backed Acacia Research Makes $9 Billion Bid for Kohl’s. What to Know.
Text size Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Activist hedge fund Starboard Value is behind a group that made a $9 billion bid for department-store operator Kohl’s , according to a report. The bidding...
Autism Can Be a Growth Market, if Investors Help It Scale
Text size The Disability Opportunity Fund, Autism Impact Fund, the Difference Fund, and Divergent Ventures are just a few funds committed to investing in the autism and intellectual- or developmental-...