Book description
The economic climate is ripe for another golden age of shareholder activism
Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations is a must-read exploration of deep value investment strategy, describing the evolution of the theories of valuation and shareholder activism from Graham to Icahn and beyond. The book combines engaging anecdotes with industry research to illustrate the principles and methods of this complex strategy, and explains the reasoning behind seemingly incomprehensible activist maneuvers. Written by an active value investor, Deep Value provides an insider's perspective on shareholder activist strategies in a format accessible to both professional investors and laypeople.
The Deep Value investment philosophy as described by Graham initially identified targets by their discount to liquidation value. This approach was extremely effective, but those opportunities are few and far between in the modern market, forcing activists to adapt. Current activists assess value from a much broader palate, and exploit a much wider range of tools to achieve their goals. Deep Value enumerates and expands upon the resources and strategies available to value investors today, and describes how the economic climate is allowing value investing to re-emerge. Topics include:
Target identification, and determining the most advantageous ends
Strategies and tactics of effective activism
Unseating management and fomenting change
Eyeing conditions for the next M&A boom
Activist hedge funds have been quiet since the early 2000s, but economic conditions, shareholder sentiment, and available opportunities are creating a fertile environment for another golden age of activism. Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations provides the in-depth information investors need to get up to speed before getting left behind.
Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1: The Icahn Manifesto
- Chapter 2: Contrarians at the Gate
- Chapter 3: Warren Buffett: Liquidator to Operator
- Chapter 4: The Acquirer’s Multiple
- Chapter 5: A Clockwork Market
- Chapter 6: Trading in Glamour: The Conglomerate Era
- Chapter 7: Catch a Falling Knife
- Chapter 8: The Art of the Corporate Raid
- Chapter 9: How Hannibal Profits From His Victories
- Chapter 10: Applied Deep Value
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118747964
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