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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Specifically, since 2018, the market has reacted positively to new activist situations, with attractive short-term share price outperformance, but relatively few activists have been able to sustain market-beating performance throughout the first year following a campaign launch.

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Does the Market Misprice Companies’ “Strategic Alternatives” Announcements?

Reynolds Holding

To explore this possibility, we divide our sample by industry, by year, by market capitalization, by analyst following, and by trading volume. We find a negative and statistically significant alpha from our risk factor regressions, confirming our findings. The abnormal returns may be rational compensation for risk.

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ISS Discusses Largest Securities-Related Class Action Settlements of 2023

Reynolds Holding

in August 2019, wiping out about $36 billion in market capitalization. This allegedly subjected investors to “undisclosed risk and ultimately led to the massive losses the funds incurred in February and March of 2020,” when the COVID-19 pandemic roiled markets. Kraft Heinz’s stock price also drastically declined from $56.20

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Costs of equity & capital 4. Dividend yield & payout 3. Default Spreads 3. Margins & ROC 3.

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

As the semiconductor business has acquired heft, in terms of revenues and profitability, investors have priced those operating results into the market capitalization assigned to these companies. After a long stretch at the top, Intel has dropped back down the list and ranked third, in terms of revenues, in 2022.

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SEC Announces Enforcement Results for FY 2022

Reynolds Holding

Charges against robo-adviser Wahed Invest, LLC , which had marketed itself as providing advisory services compliant with Islamic, or Shari’ah law, but failed to adopt and implement written policies and procedures addressing how it would assure Shari’ah compliance on an ongoing basis. A litigated matter charging Vale S.A. ,