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Its restaurant portfolio includes Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill and Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. But a better opportunity might be their hidden gem in the 150 Outback restaurants in Brazil. As for Starboard, the firm has had extensive success at both Papa John's and Darden, but in strikingly different ways. Papa John's was a very amicable engagement in which Starboard was invited onto the board and worked with management to create extensive shareholder value. If management is smart, they will view Darden as a warning, and Papa John's as the opportunity.
Persons: David C, George, Bloomin, outperforming Darden, Jeff Smith, Papa John's, Chris, Del Frisco's, accretive, Jana Partners, John P, Gainor, Lawrence V, Jackson, Jana, Papa, Darden, Ken Squire Organizations: Brands, Wine, Papa John's, Darden, Texas Roadhouse, LongHorn Steakhouse, Texas, Fogo De Chao, 13D Locations: United States, BLMN, Fogo De, Brazil
The extraordinary activist-investor interest in Salesforce (CRM) eased further in the second quarter, according to the latest regulatory filings from influential Wall Street pros. His firm still owned about 2 million Salesforce shares as of June 30. Tepper also bought 2.3 million shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and 480,000 shares of Apple (AAPL) during the second quarter. As a result, Appaloosa's holdings as of mid-August may differ significantly from the conclusion of the second quarter. GOOGL YTD mountain Alphabet YTD performance Bets on Google's parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL), varied in the second quarter.
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"AI is an enormous opportunity," Smith said Tuesday on CNBC's " Squawk on the Street ." The internet was one to start with ... maybe you talk about cryptocurrency blockchain and then you might talk about AI." Smith said AI is an "enormous opportunity" for Salesforce , the software company that he took an activist stake in in 2022. Revenue growth did slow a little bit, which was expected," Smith said of Salesforce. Smith said he's also bullish on software name Splunk , which he said is slightly behind Salesforce in terms of execution.
Persons: Jeff Smith, Smith, blockchain, chatbot, they've, Salesforce, there's, he's Organizations: Nvidia, Ramius Locations: York
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