It’s time for another edition of Odds & Ends where we share some random articles and pieces that we have been reading… 1. Harvard Business School touts Ferrari’s (RACE) exemplary leadership prior to the coronavirus crisis. Some good lessons in there and kudos to Chairman John Elkann and CEO Louis Camilleri for their strong leadership and foresight. Ferrari… Read More »
In 2015, under pressure from legendary activist investor Carl Icahn, eBay(EBAY) chose to spin off PayPal(PYPL). While PayPal stock has performed remarkably since the spin-off, eBay stock’s performance has been decidedly prosaic. With this backdrop, not one, but two activist investors have entered the stage and begun pushing for changes. Of course, most relevant to us is that… Read More »
With the new year, a new start for Arlo Technologies(ARLO) as NETGEAR(NTGR) distributed the 84.2% of the company that it still owned to its shareholders on December 31. NETGEAR shareholders received 1.980295 shares of Arlo stock for every share of NETGEAR stock held. Also, concurrent with the transaction, NETGEAR’s founder, Chairman and CEO, Patrick C.S. Lo, resigned from the… Read More »
Eric Schmidt has a message for investors who think that Google’s shift to the Alphabet(GOOG) holding company structure and businesses increasingly far afield from search indicate a future breakup- don’t hold your breath. Schmidt, Alphabet’s Executive Chairman, spoke on the topic last week. When asked during Bloomberg’s Breakaway Summit on Wednesday whether the multifaceted company with a plethora… Read More »
Serial spinner IDT(IDT) has set the date for its spinoff of Zedge(ZDGE). IDT shareholders as of May 26 at 5PM will receive one share of Zedge for every three IDT shares that they own. The spinoff will be effective at 11:59PM on June 1. The company’s most recent form 10 can be found here. We recently had the… Read More »