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A Potential Bidding War for Guess - The Special Situations Report Episode #16
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Summary:In this episode of the Special Situations Report, hosts Asif and Tamanna Suria discuss the latest developments in the event-driven investing world, focusing on M&A activity, stock buybacks, insider trading, spinoffs, and significant management changes. They begin with a potential rival offer by Authentic Brands to acquire Guess instead of WHP Global and cover an announcement from Alumis regarding a better offer for their acquisition of Acelyrin. Asif and Tamanna then dive into the spinoff of ABB’s robotics segment and cover some notable buybacks from the week at companies such as Google, Equifax, Medpace, and more. They then highlight a very fascinating insider purchase at an especially unique company, Lindblad Expeditions, and also cover some interesting activist activity at Harley-Davidson and Bausch Health by H Partners and Carl Icahn respectively. The episode concludes with a discussion of key management transitions at Avanos Medical and Match Group.Keywords:M&A, tariffs, merger arbitrage, Carl Icahn, bidding war, competing offers, insider buying, insider sales, buybacks, C-suite transitions, spinoffs, activists, failed mergers, management transitions, special situations, event-driven investing, markets, stocks
21 episodes
Manage episode 479554860 series 3637844
Summary:In this episode of the Special Situations Report, hosts Asif and Tamanna Suria discuss the latest developments in the event-driven investing world, focusing on M&A activity, stock buybacks, insider trading, spinoffs, and significant management changes. They begin with a potential rival offer by Authentic Brands to acquire Guess instead of WHP Global and cover an announcement from Alumis regarding a better offer for their acquisition of Acelyrin. Asif and Tamanna then dive into the spinoff of ABB’s robotics segment and cover some notable buybacks from the week at companies such as Google, Equifax, Medpace, and more. They then highlight a very fascinating insider purchase at an especially unique company, Lindblad Expeditions, and also cover some interesting activist activity at Harley-Davidson and Bausch Health by H Partners and Carl Icahn respectively. The episode concludes with a discussion of key management transitions at Avanos Medical and Match Group.Keywords:M&A, tariffs, merger arbitrage, Carl Icahn, bidding war, competing offers, insider buying, insider sales, buybacks, C-suite transitions, spinoffs, activists, failed mergers, management transitions, special situations, event-driven investing, markets, stocks
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