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5 Factors Impacting Activists’ Declining Success Rate

Harvard Corporate Governance

companies with market capitalizations of at least $100 million and where ISS and Glass Lewis published voting recommendations. From 2017 through 2020, activists won at least one board seat in 57% of these contests. FTI Consulting examined proxy contests in which the underlying campaign sought board seats at U.S.

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Intel In Crosshairs Of Apollo, Qualcomm

Global Finance

Intel’s market share continues to decline. Its stock price has plummeted 60% this year and its market capitalization fell below $100 billion in early August: the first time that has happened since 2012. Recall Nvidia’s attempt to acquire Arm Holdings in 2020; regulators in the US, the UK, Europe and China blocked the effort.

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M&A Industry Trends: What sectors have the best-selling businesses?

Viking Mergers

With just a few exceptions, the M&A boom swept across the US economy with deal values up significantly from 2020 totals. In 2021, there were 2,193 technology deals, up sixty-nine percent (69%) from 2020, while value numbers rose one hundred and thirty-three percent (133%). Nearly every industry had record activity in 2021, though.

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Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks

Musings on Markets

Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. trillion in market cap, accounting for all of the recovery in US stocks during that period. to 14.9%. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations.

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Musk’s $56 billion: Pay, Incentives, or Rewards?

Reynolds Holding

For example, if a three-year time-vesting grant of 300,000 shares is made to a CEO on Jun 30, 2020, the CEO typically will have full ownership of 100,000 shares on June 30, 2021; another 100,000 shares on June 30, 2022; and the remaining 100,000 shares on June 30, 2023. firm-years (i.e., We find that only 6.4

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Poison Pills in a World of Activism and ESG

Reynolds Holding

Pill Trigger Thresholds Should Be Assessed Against Market Capitalization. The absence of an inverse correlation between market capitalization and trigger threshold is peculiar; in today’s world, what is relevant is the dollar stake an activist can acquire, not the threshold percentage. 5 billion market capitalization).

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Gibson Dunn Offers Annual Activism Update for 2021

Reynolds Holding

Announced shareholder activist activity increased relative to 2020. Suchlevels of activism are comparable to those found prior to the market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as reflected in public activist actions in 2019 (76 vs. 75), activist investors taking actions (48 vs. 49), and companies targeted by such actions (69 vs. 64).