Activists

Baupost Group activist filings are rare events. Seth Klarman, the renowned value investor who heads Baupost, prefers to take passive stakes in companies. Since 2006, Baupost has filed 352 passive 13G filings, and made only 25 activist 13D filings, according to data from WhaleWisdom.com.

Starboard Value 13Ds are worth paying attention to. The hedge fund, led by manager Jeff Smith, is one of the most prolific -- and successful -- activist funds. Since 2011, Starboard has filed 305 activist reports: 47 initial 13Ds and 258 13D/A SEC...

On August 30, Scion Capital filed a 13D on Tailored Brands(TLRD) disclosing a 5.18% position in the troubled formal apparel retailer that owns Men's Warehouse and Jos. A. Bank. Michael Burry's hedge fund also disclosed three separate letters sent to management in recent weeks. In the letter...

Michael Burry as activist investor? It doesn't seem likely that the famously media-shy hedge fund manager would take a page from Carl Icahn's playbook, but that's just what appears to be happening. Burry told Barron's in an article published Wednesday that Scion Asset...

Starboard Value cut its Cars.com stake aggressively after the online auto retailer's strategic search failed and the company announced disappointing Q2 results. In a 13D/A filing submitted Wednesday afternoon, the hedge fund disclosed selling 4.47 million shares of the online automobile retailer on August 5-6 at...

Activist Cannell Capital raised its stake in Lee Enterprises (LEE) to 7.37%. The hedge fund filed a 13D/A on July 30 disclosing a 1.7 million additional share purchase of the newspaper publisher. Cannell is now LEE's largest shareholder. Lee Enterprises owns 49...

Twenty-two minutes after regular market hours closed on July 2, an Orbimed Advisors Form 4 relating to Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc (CRVS) was posted on the SEC's website. The hedge fund, a 10%+ holder and insider in CRVS, disclosed that between June 27 and July 1 it...

Macerich insiders have bought a record $2.8 million of the retail mall developer's stock over the last two months as Macerich (MAC) shares hit seven year lows. A great story needs a great title. And what could be better than "Retail Apocalypse" to capture...

A Mellanox (MLNX) insider bought $2.2 million of the Israeli chip designer as fears China will block a proposed merger with Nvidia Corp (NVDA) pushed the price of MLNX well below the buyout price. Stephen Sanghi, a director of Sunnyvale-based Mellanox since February...

Its 13F filings season again -- when hedge fund managers show their hands. Forty-five days after the end of every quarter, every U.S. institutional investor with assets over $100 million is required to report its holdings to the SEC via 13F filings. Last quarter...